Yup, I believie it, that it is your first site.
But hey everyone starts from somewhere, in your case it was ezboard forums.
Soon you will learn the possibilities of personally created forums, HTML, FTP, uploading files, coding, graphics, and all that fun stuff that goes with websites!
Well you said criticism is okay, so here I go. The whole site is a message board! Later on, you might getting a site remotely hosted from some free host like tripod or angelfire and create an intro HTML page with news informtion and other such stuff.
Also with EZBOARD you can put some kind of head banner, you could try making one.
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From the good side, your color scheme works with nice images complimenting it.
To your post in the general board, backround images are bad, they are big, bulky, and ugly.
Good work!