Could this work?

What he said pretty much. I thought I read that you could allow gifs. I've seen many forums that seem to be all flashy with gifs for basically everything and they just look dumb. This forum has a great skin that is more professional and sticking gifs in might change that. Even if you could use to put text on top of certain background images, maybe with slight changes. That might work out better.

 

I generally don't like those bars in forums, but that's just me. I'm sure it'll add to the flavor of the community, so meh. It has its ups and downs. I wouldn't be enraged to see it, but I personally wouldn't use it.

 

This would work great and it would be cool to see what some people support etc by their user titles.

Support.