Thanks makd511,
I hear what you're saying.
The main purpose of the site is to help people but I hope that people can come back and help others as well. So for the people that do come back, hopefully the competition will give them some sort of 'reward'.
Good idea on the banner. As you know (and can probably see) I'm NOT a graphic designer at all! I suck at designing anything creative.
If you or anyone else has some good ideas on a banner, please let me know or if you can design one, that would be great.
If you can do one on the left hand side vertical bar (160 x 600) or one at the top or the bottom of the forums (728 x 90), that would be great.