weve already got a paid for domain and if i was gonna go with a templated forum itd be phpBB as a free alternative rather than as a subdomain of some freeforum malarky
will the overhaul include the illusive forums rofl...and maybe an image hosting section rather than crazily long lfs attachment links for people like me who are far too lazy for such long links
depends what you mean by "made" do you mean coded ever single form and page in php, as well as the code to generate the sql queries, the sql queries themselves, the forum commands and interface etc or just filled in a few details altered a few scripts from pre-written source code like phpBB, invisionpro/free, javaforum, vBulletin etc as if its the latter then yes, it takes the better part of 10mins tops and your done tbh (with the basics anyway)
on a side note, you might wanna edit the events page and actually state a time for thursday meets
well how far are you in "coding" your own forum, php is a bitch of a language to code an entire forum in, its like saying i dont like windows so ill write my own OS
phpBB can be made to run within the shell of the website and a skin and icon pack (which is far more feasible to be made specific for the site) can be overlayed at such time as it is complete
dont ask me how i never bother with forums but since most of the site is php anyway then it should be more than doable
worst case scenario a few plugins like e107 do everything in an integrated fashion, so all itd need is skinning
there was a rather nice netsplit today with microsoft, msn, live, updates...all M$ services were affected, some areas more than others as is always the case in a net split