Hi,

you should have a look at http://www.phpbb.com. This is an open source forum software that could give you a lot of ideas for your forum here.

- Memberlist

- Private messages

- See who is online

- Visual notification about changed topics since last visit

- View topics of a special user only

- View unanswered topics

- Jump to the beginning of an thread or to the end (last topic)

- See how many people viewed a thread

- ...

If you want to create a real community you have to be a lot more user friendly.

Helmut