Please review my health and beauty forum which has been online for almost a year now and is still dead and please suggest what I should do in order to inject some life into this forum.
One way will be allowing other forums to cut-and-paste your articles with a link from your site forum. That way, you will benefit from the articles shown in other sites linking to your forum. I have restarted a new forum so we can help each other in this way. If interested, you can PM me.
Nice header design! For your adsense ad, change the border and BG color to the same BG that it's behind. And the links should be pale brown (like your other links in your forum)