So any important part of a forum is the theme - that is, how it is presented graphically to the users. At the moment, I've decided to switch from the slightly dark theme to this softer, more basic one, mainly to make changing things easier (for me to see what has changed).
However, I don't think the overall decision of theme should be left down to me, so therefore I leave it open to the other members to suggest themes/colour schemes etc, so we can eventually narrow it down to something everyone likes (or at least tolerates).
http://en.hitskin.com/
At the link above, you can browse some of the skins more easily available to us. If anyone knows how to make a theme/skin for a phpBB2 based forum, that would be cool as well.