Unfortunately, we are going to need to place at least some advertising near the top of the website. We are trying to be careful about it though. The way you did it Ted is how we would like it to be. Out of the primary page content. I guess if we were looking to make money (as apposed to covering costs) we would have to consider placing the ads in the content. Really don't want to do that.

I have looked at those BBSs. They are all good scripts. Our finalist selection came down to speed (your suggestions are definitely fast) and features. V-bulletin and SMF have tremendous feature sets, and great administrative backends that really give us a lot of flexibility.

I can't believe your forum is that large! Thats incredible. I didn't realize there were so many watch enthusiests.

We appreciate the feedback Ted!

GRAM