Giving the web site a new look

Well, it was Memorial Day weekend, so we've been relaxing a bit with the family. What fun.

I decided to do a bit of sprucing up a bit on the web site since I had moved it to a new server and decided to change the look a bit. I had been using an old Front Page theme that I bought about 5 years ago (and have used on a bunch of simple web sites), so I decided to fool around and see what I came up with.

So, the web site has a somewhat new look. I also decided to fire up PaintShopPro (aka poor man's Photoshop) and put together a few graphics to use as section dividers.

I found a neat little script that would allow me to put "recent topics" from the discussion board on any page I wanted. That took about 3 minutes to install, and 3 more minutes to make pretty. www.phpbb.com has a lot of pretty easy tools that go with their discussion forum system.

It is surprisingly easy, if you will just follow the directions. Hopefully having some of the discussion topics on the main page will encourage people to explore a bit in the forums (not that there is much there yet!).