Yeah well, before anyone gets real good replies for this post. Please take note that this forum is next to the webdesign and the programming forum. And to tell you the truth, I don't see why you cannot just build a site to go along with your forum and THEN link your site to your forum using a link. It isn't that hard people, especially when you have a wide variety of different types of editors (Ex: Dreamweaver, GoLive, FrontPage, etc.)
So please, if you have any good sites post them before you add on your forum URL inside that post, or a better way of doing this is have a link to your forums on your site and not advertise just your forums.
This is why I moved away from just making forums in the first place (Way back in 7th Grade might I add) and it gave me much more people who liked my forums AND site, besides people who come for my site content that is.
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Also, another reason is that content should not go in your forums in the first place as a fill-in for your site, and I learned that the hard way, as my members from a long time ago stopped coming as frequent due to me focusing more on my forums rather than content that is on my site. (Examples of my site content are: Show Reviews, Game Reviews, Image Gallery, etc.)
That's about all I have to say at the moment.