As previously mentioned, I am heavily considering offering up free clan/guild forums through CSSGaming. I have already started the work on building up a demo site to show the basic forum styles but I can go just about any forum style designed for the forum back end. At this moment in time, I am looking at phpBB3. It is the most current version of a very popular and versitile forum system. If you have never used phpBB, it allows for user ranks, groups, private areas, stickies, avatars and just about anything else one could want in an easy to use system that can be set up with the basic and ready to populate with categories and boards in as little as 10 minutes. Mind you, that speed provides nothing but the default styles and logos but is ready to use that fast if your domain is ready to go. Here is list of what I am considering requiring from people wanting to set up a board through my domain.

• It will be a sub-domain of cssgaming.org
• A request must be made in email form to admin [at] cssgaming [dot] org.
• The request must include a real name, valid email address, and agreement to the terms that will be provided at a later time.
• You will be required to locate the style you want through my demo site (being built) or locate one one the internet and provide me a link to where I can download a publically available style.
• Any image or logo design will be provided by the requestor and emailed to me. It must also remain in the same size as used on the style's default logo.
• After the request is made and approved, the sub-domain and basic forum structure will be in place and ready to be used in 48 - 72 hours. Logo changes may take an additional 24 hours from time of receipt.

I may have other restrictions and the times may not be dead on. I will try to have them completed in under 24 hours but my work and personal life will always come first. That is not an option that can be swayed to your benefit. We all have bosses and I have 2. My work boss and my wife. I can not win a battle against either and if they say do this, the forum will come after.

For this service, I am not looking at any form of cost to the users. I will place a couple buttons in the footer of the forum. The first will link back to the CSSGaming main site and the other will link back to my hosting provider where people are free to make donations if they so choose. These are not mandatory in any way as I get a shit ton of service for very little cost. And if a donation is made, have no worries. The money donated will go towards my monthly hosting bill automatically.

As a side note, I also have a CSSGaming Vent server. At the current time, it is privately used between about 6 people and set for a 10 user limits. Depending on public response, I may consider increasing the user limtations. My choicces are incremental between 10 and 400 users. The possibilty of this happen is slim right now but I do not want to rule it out. it is just another thing I am looking into for the gaming community.

After quite a bit of thought, I am considering offering sub-domains with phpBB running for various clans/guilds. This is nothing set in stone and I am unsure exactly how to go about doing that just yet but if you are interested, let me know. Email me @ admin [at] cssgaming [dot] org with some of your clan info, the game you play, and how big your group is.

the difficult part will be themes and the choices of which you can use. I may put up a test board with all of the themes I currently have. The only thing required on your end would be picking one or 2 and re-working the logo images to suit your needs then emailing your choice and the images to me. I may take 1 or 2 as a test and see how it goes before opening it up.

More on this in the future.