Newcomers to a board would probably benefit from the forum description that appears in the forum pages. Nothing long, but just enough information about the particular forum so that the user will get the gist of it.
Ever noticed that the majority of any site/board the links and buttons are set to the left of the pages? Most likely this is due to the english influence of going from left to right. Well the scrollbars, unless modified, aligns to the right. If the links are to the left or all over the place for that matter it just makes it cumbersome for the users to jump all around with their mouse clicking on the links.
To make things a bit more user-friendly I went into a different direction and set the majority of the links to the right, where the scrollbar lies. This way the users, especially those who use higher resolutions and wider monitors will have an easier time navigating between the pages. It's different, but so far my users seem to like it.
Another thing is that I placed the PM Inbox System hack on the public_common.pl instead of the public_forum_summary.pl file. This way no matter which page the user is in they will always see if a new PM are in their inbox.
This is another thing that is unique. Every board that I have visited has their "my profile" buttons situated so that when a user clicks the link it will take them to their PM, in which the user will have to click an extra link to view the "Edit Profile". This to me just doesn't make sense.
To make things more practical I've edited the links so that when you click on the "my profile" the link will take you to their "Edit Profile" page. Because I have the PM Inbox installed that link will take them directly to their PMs. All of the other links (cookies, new post indicator and Edit Profile) links were stripped out making a clean PM page.
