One rainy afternoon I was searching for a good shoutbox block for the canadian offiz and had to learn THERE IS NON OUT THERE. ;| No offense, but the shoutboxes for PHPNuke are pretty heavy and unecessary huge with lame smilies and stuff. Pretty soon I also remembered that I, for such a long time now, wanted to build a simple message and discussion board like on newstoday.com (btw. I truely love this site). Simply a noteboard with response features for all readers, which let's you see the topics listed by last activity, number of replies, publisher names, with a search function and that's it. added on some flash buttons and decant css stylesheet detection. simple, but effective. even though it uses iframes for the two boxes it has a detection for the older browser