publicizing a forum?

Hello,
I have this organisation called Arkrillium that me and this other guy called Pete co-founded in 2001. I have recently been developing some very cool PHP components one of which is a forum. My code is good, I have made sure of that, there's nothing but the bare essentials.

But, I want to make this forum a place where people can just chat in general about programming and scripting, not like a help forum or anything. So my question to everyone that reads this is; what do you want in a forum? and secondly; how on earth would I go on about advertising it?

Pete suggested that I advertise on other forums, ethically is that ok? It's just I don't want to annoy anyone. I would appreciate any help,"

>> Reiken Chan

Please don't advertise on DevShed by posting. There is a media kit for you if you are interested in the banner hosting here.

I would submit to as many search engines as possible (or get a tool that does many at once).

computer

You certainly get props for bringing up the ethical issue as most people would not and would just post. So thanks for asking.

You will want to do what computer said and just put it in search engines. A lot of people are looking for a place to discuss programming in general and not really how to do one specific thing but the theory behind it (which I do happen to love more than anything). There are not many places you can do this so getting into search engines and just word of mouth will help you grow.

I have heard about these auto-advertising programs, Arkrillium hasn't yet been publicized so I would be quite keen to get my hands of a copy. Where do you think I could get one?
thanks for your help.

>> Reiken Chan

Try www.seochat.com and/or something like AddMe service or MarketLeap