See the attached screen shot for an example of something we did with WWWThreads.

First, we got rid of the alternating call colors. Then, we wanted to make the threads with new posts in them stand out more than a single icon on the left would. So, we marked them in bold with an alternate cell color. In this case, the typical cell color is grey, while the new messages are marked with white cells, in bold, with a yellow folder instead of white... I've gotten used to this and think it works really well. Also works in threaded mode, on the forum post list pages, and inside of threads. It's all css based so we just put another style in called newthreads, that has the cell bg, text properties, etc, for future changes.

I'm sure it could be done with GForum as well, as a hack, but I think both the alternating or consistent cell colors, and new post text/cell options would be nice appearance options for GForum.


Muhammad