Go to http://www.Lucidly.com and then click on the forums link. As you can see all I have done is uploaded it and edited the categories. I really am not familiar with customizing a forum, so I thought I would just hire someone to do it. No guidelines except to make it look good, and to make it narrower (it is far too wide right now). I also need all the things like "yourdomain.com" fixed. So basically just change the format and the "yourdomain" things appropriately, make it look good and customized would be the only guidelines. Something simple like the dreamviews.com forum would be good. Maybe change some of the icons to a dream-related icon. I don't know. Also, if you can add a chat room feature to the forum or a chat section to the forum (don't know if this is possible) I will definitely pick you and you will get a bonus (varying amount depending on how happy I am with the chat feature).
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