The process of designing a website can be long and arduous. Typical static content websites are more of the bread-and-butter layouts we see every day. However, there are plenty of more detailed examples involving message boards, forums, and other social communities.
In this gallery, I’ve put together 35 screenshots of well-crafted bulletin boards for designers. Building a forum template requires lots of pre-planning to get the whole layout looking good. If you see which techniques other designers have used, it may provide a blueprint for starting your own project from scratch. Take a look over some of these designs and see which interfaces tend to stand out from the crowd.
Android Central
Cartoon Network Asia
Logic Pro Forum
Comic Vine
SpongeBuddy Mania
Newgrounds
DTV Forum
Home Theater Forum
CrackBerry Forums
Ubuntu Forums
Translatum
Eyes on FF
Nintendo Life Forums
Magical Kingdoms
PokéCommunity
Serenes Forest
Toon Boom Forums
Pixar Planet
Nvidia Developer Forums
HTML5 Game Dev Forums
Discuss Cooking
Photoshop Gurus
Chip Music
Fiverr Forum
Windows Forum
Discourse
Flarum
Drift Community
MoneySavingExpert
IWC Collectors Forum
Omega Forums
Webflow Forum
Section Eighty
Muut Communtiy
Community Page
This post was originally published in February 2014; updated May 2021.
Author: Jake Rocheleau
Jake is a creative designer, illustrator, and web developer. He frequently writes articles involving new-age design concepts and freelance management skills. You can find him in Google or follow his tweets @jakerocheleau