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It would be nice if the post reply area were displayed by default, and not revealed only by clicking on the “post reply” button….if you want someone to do something put it right in their face, don't semi conceal it….

Another thing, when I made my very first post on this forum, the first time I had used a simple press forum, I typed out my message and then looked for a “post” button but couldn't find one, I noticed “Save New Post” button but initially ignored it because I didn't want to save it I wanted to post it. Anyway I worked it out in the end but….people are thick as sh*t, possibly including myself, and they skim and scan web pages quickly, I've always worked on the principle of K.I.S.S, don't make people think, make it very clear what they are supposed to do. If your market is clued-up net people then the current way of doing things works but if you're looking at mass market for this I'd advise, like I said, not being too clever, especially with “hiding” the post reply area… just my thoughts, not carping, it's a great forum script, you've done a tremendous job….

Having dealt with Javascript and layers in the past, it's my understanding that closed by default is a setting that is done in the intitial rendering of the page, therefore you could edit the render output to show the form, (sf-framework.css line #131, comment out the text

as far as the button text goes, that is not so simple. The specific text "Save New Post" is used in the rendering of the page as a key identifier. I found no less than 5 refrences to the text in the file: simple-forum/forum/forms/sf-form-post.php which is the primary rendering code, and another 12 refrences overall.

You could change the text, using a find replace on that one file, but be aware that it is also tied directly to the text "Do Math To Save" and "Save New Topic" which, combined are refrenced another 38 times over multiple files.

Thanks Radio that worked a treat, and I'll look into the language file issue presently.