One would be either changing the "templates" section of the buy/sell/trade area to "design". Or adding a "design" section to the services area of buy/sell/trade. Another would be Searchable private messages, there has to be a mod for this someplace, and writing one can't be too difficult.
The Design section of B/S/T is coming (along with another 1 or 2), but working on something else before they actually get added.
The first suggestion would be nice if they will add it. And about the second suggestion I doubt if this will happen. I think searching of private messages can be done by downloading your PM in your HD and search for the message you would like to find. Indeed writing can't be too dificult but were talking about adding more bandwith for the forum.
Yeah last few days I actually had to create my own offline equivalent so i could look up old pms. It didn't take too long, and actually i would let people download it but the read area looks horrible since it doesn't parse the various vbulletin codes like the quotes, urls, emails, smilies etc.
Maybe we could suggest to make the PM more presentable in reading it in PC. May I know what type of file you're downloading?
I downloaded it into an excel file, then took about 3 hours and made a small php site that would export the excel's contents to a mysql database. Then the page sorts it into inbox/outbox, has a search page, and 2 read pages, one to look at an individual message, and one that shows you all the pms back and forth between one person. Of course the whole thing is just like tables and borders since i just typed it straight into php echo's but it does the job. The excel reads fine i guess however when i'm looking at more then one thousand messages its kind of exhausting to go through it.
Ok got it. I don't have thousand of messages though in my PM thats why I don't have to worry about it. Well Good Luck I hope you will get what you are asking for.