its not "fishy", I think it should be blue..

I couldn't agree more.

The skin is too dark..Needs to be lighter..

The ads on the left are a large distraction also.

Do you think we should put them at the right or bottom instead?

I think the links should go down the bottom.
The current banner at the bottom looks silly as it stretches out a table, making the background duplicate... And it looks silly.

I also think the 'add reply', 'new topic', 'new poll' buttons should be in a format more suited to the rest of the skin.

I'll work on some new buttons that will be more "fishy" tomorrow. I took out the background image behind the banners at the bottom, too.

The bottom looks much better! :)

I don't think the buttons necessarily need to be fishy, just a colour that matches everything else. :)

maybe fishy buttons for fast reply and stuff.

Yeah, we'll work on some new buttons... those that are up now, are NOT permanent... just better than what we had before. I've been trying to find some decent flash buttons to use, but most sites, even the pay sites, have so few buttons, and nothing that would really work well here. I'm by far, NOT a graphics guru, so I really don't want to even try to strike out on my own.

now that the vote things are on the other side this site looks heaps better i was having trouble that the right hand side was off the page and i couldnt scroll across to see what was written

Yep, the page organization is looking much better!! :D

Glad you like it. I would have never known if someone hadn't told me, so if you notice problems like that, let us know.

it will be done