I am not sure the problem is of the "dominant color" choosen for WWWThreads. A site can look good no matter what the dominant color is, well, just about... []/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/].
If it had yellow tones we´d probably be asking if you are going through a yellow stage, and so on...
Maybe it is true that it needs a re-design from scratch. Maybe create the wanted look without considering how difficult it would be to do so, and then, after that, see what can be done to get it done. So someone would have to design the wanted look for the forum, and then see how to get it done, instead of the other way around.
Anyways, I am very new to PHP, but from the looks at it, I am getting a hint that it will be really easy to re-design it, each one as we want it. So I am not really worried about that as I too would like to move to PHP when done.
I have my own personal style that if I get it done I believe it will be totally different, and I am guessing same with others.
So what I would worry about the most would be for the script to really allow me to completely customize the looks. In that sense I would love to have an ugly plain text version of the PHP version, and just be able to give it the design I want.
Obviously, to this last point, it is a personal thing as I enjoy webdesigning, people who are not designers would obviously want a packaged good looking forum, so we are back to where we started... []/w3timages/icons/laugh.gif[/]