I do love it. its quite sexy template and a very HOT topic to make a website on. But otherwise realistically speaking, as activity goes, its not that updated. Don't think so at all!
I honestly like the smoothness of the website, however, it is too graphic intensive, and will be very slow to load for a visitor on Dial-Up. I have 300kbps connection and felt the load time. I think if you were to slim down some of the height of the bars by 1/2 it should speed things up a bit. Great layout though, Nick
Every website has to start somewhere. This definitely has a lot of potential. It definitely looks the part. Perhaps a website with a custom back and front end would be more suitable but the forum could definitely work. I mean a lot of sales are made through DP's Buy, Sell & Trade section so we all know it works. You could be onto something big here. Good luck with it
Colors look a little bit too dark for me - maybe also it would work better if you changed the colors of the section headers on order to differentiate between them more easily? I also agree with the earlier comment about designing a front end page for this which leads the visitor into the forum - I'm not too sure that many people are used to being directly sold to via a forum layout?? Just a couple of thoughts for you - I hope they help Phil