How to get people to join your forum ?

[AlyLauren]

You are correct. Forum looks and design may factor but it comes to content at the end. I know a lot of forums whose desgin may be of late 90's but they just do fine because of the content they have generated over years.

Exactly! Some website also have a good layout design but you can only see how few people participate in the discussion since its too usual. We participate in a forum to get information and so as to share are thought so design won't always matter.