recommended templates!
| Style Name | Theme | Comments on the Style | 3.0.6 and all features? | 3.0.6? | all features? |
| Black Pearl |  | Black background, business like operation | YES | YES | YES |
| starcraft |  | Black/ grey background, sci fi setting | YES | YES | YES |
| DarkFantasy |  | Blue background, olde worlde parchment setting | NO | YES | NO |
| twilightBB |  | Grey centred background, complemented by orange buttons/ graphics | YES | YES | YES |
| subMerged |  | Blue water based background, completely different to all above templates | YES | YES | YES |
templates in jeopardy!
I'm sorry the below styles are still awaiting update by phpBB engineers!
| Style Name | Theme | Comments on the Style | 3.0.6 and all features? | 3.0.6? | all features? |
| Vista |  | Bright, light, fun, ultraclear forums operation | NO | NO | NO |
| VidoStyle |  | Black background, ipod era graphics | NO | NO | NO |
| wowblue includes wowgreen, wowred, wowgold |  | Black background, fabulous rich and dark operation | NO | NO | NO |
all other styles available to you, will be reviewed later this month
check list of 20 features that are on offer on this site
if ALL FEATURES shows YES than you should have all of these
| Update Status | From your top menu click the option "Update Status" and type in a daily (weekly/monthly) update e.g. "Getting my car repaired today!" /"Getting married today!" anything like that. The idea is you can easily/ rapidly update this anytime you want (that's why the top menu has it) | 1 |
| Profile Comment | Click on another member's profile, leave a comment on their profile e.g. "Hey Frothy I used to have that avatar - where did you get it?" / "Do you really live in West Molesey? I grew up there!" / "Congratulations on passing your exams!" anything like that | 2 |
| Friends List | Whoever you choose as "Friends" are listed on your profile page as "Your Friends" | 3 |
| Profile Visitors | See who has visited your profile | 4 |
| Promote Old Threads | See a chart of threads in categories "ONE YEAR AGO", "TWO YEARS AGO" and "THREE YEARS AGO" | 5 |
| Ajax Chat | Chat to other members in public (on index page of site) | 6 |
| PJIRC Chat | Chat to other members "in private" (separate page) | 7 |
| Bans Page | See who's currently banned | 8 |
| Ranks Page | See which ranks are available | 9 |
| View Unread Posts | This has just come in with 3.0.6 [BRAND NEW FEATURE] | 10 |
| View Active Topics | This was new with 3.0.0 but well worth having | 11 |
| Vote in Polls | Some styles have been effected by a problem since 3.0.6 hit. All those styles upgraded to 3.0.6 are fine but some styles which are still awaiting upgrade e.g. Vista, WowBlue and VidoStyle are now rendered outside "VOTING MODE" = members who have selected these styles may find themselves UNABLE to vote in polls | 12 |
| R E D B A R | this line will probably commence or end with "Pages" or "F Pages" and allows Administators to keep an up to date external menu live on the forums | 13 |
| Announcement Centre | allows Administrators to "Announce" items on the index page of the forums | 14 |
| Anniversary List | Shows the anniversary of any member who joined on the day e.g. "1 year later" to the day | 15 |
| Star Awards | Shows up in topic view mode where you will see various members with additional stars to their name | 16 |
| Top 10 Styles | Shows a chart with the most popular styles listed at the top | 17 |
| Top 10 Events | Shows a chart indicating the latest 10 topics, latest 10 members and TOP 10 active members too | 18 |
| Similar Topics | In Topic View - this feature quickly searches to find similar topics for you, if it finds any, it lists them at the bottom of the topic that you're viewing | 19 |
| Attachments | Attach any kind of image to a post, just check your posting form for the "browse to file" system | 20 |