CAPSLOCK IS AUTOPILOT FOR COOL

Actually, what would be the equivalent of capslock in Japanese? Putting a dash between every character?

The images are only going to have to load one time and will usually be cached on the user’s side afterwards… no need to mess with those just yet ;)

All in all, I’d say it runs very smoothly on the platform you have to work with. People get annoyed over ‘speed’ but don’t remember how slow things like this used to be. A couple of seconds nowadays causes way too much QQ.

hurray for gravitar + jisho.org + images.google.com + gimp =)

Yup… right behind you =) just found some info on plugins. Looks like there is one for ‘open in new window’

Not sure how old this post is but http://www.docswordpressguide.com/adding-a-forum

Plugins

These are included in the bbPress file from this site. Activate the ones you want:
•Akismet — A free spam prevention service, recommended. Click on the link and follow the directions. After it’s activated, an ‘Akismet’ entry will appear in the ‘Settings’ area where you punch in the code they email you.

•BB WYSIWYG Editor — A much better editor

•Human Test — Anti-bot measure during the registration process

•New User Notification — Informs moderator when someone’s registered

•Open In New Window — Opens link in new browser window

•Terms Of Service — A block of text displaying at the bottom of the registration page

•Yearlong Cookies — Apparently there’s some time expiration on cookies (which remember the user’s password) so this extends it

It’s probably just a setting in your control panel… but I’ve never played with forums before =P (see? I don’t even know the right syntax to embed an image!)