[lin robinson]

I looked at your forum and ran into something I almost mentioned before, but will definitely mention now. People so often start forums with a whole slew of sections, spreading everything way too thin. For instance, you have a half-dozen seperate links for the Army. And no posts.

It's better to start simple. General Discussion, Sports, Business, etc. Don't force people to try to decide where their post goes. And limit who sees it.

Once you start growing, you can divide to accomdate the type of posts you get. Maybe you'll have so many military posts you need to separate out the history from the rest. I doubt it.

Instead of having a separate niche for every conceivable thought, with few posts in each, consolidate and perhaps have separate forums for an area you want to concentrate on, to build traffic...football or some special area like "Post your Business notice" or some such. Keep it compact and simple, especially at first.