QUOTE(SpoiledShihTzu @ Jan 4 2007, 06:17 PM)

I have been searching all over for a shih tzu forum here in the states, but no such luck. Not caus I don't like the UK it's just that things come up like ppl need baby sitters and I wish I could help, but they're all the way in England......anyways in the states I could meet some ppl and actually socialize in person outside of the forum ya know have a little shih tzu meet so that our shih tzu can interact with one another. I have already started a shih tzu club in my area it's working out pretty good, but I would like to put a forum onto my site so that we can all chat and the people who don't live close can still be in contact and get useful information. However, while I am a graphic designer the design part isn't all that goes into a forum there's a bunch of other crazy codes that have to be used that I don't know
Shih Tzu Chatter Two forum is a nice one that seems to be US based. The admins and many of the members are. In addition to that there are loads on the likes of Yahoo groups, MSN groups etc.
The yahoo group type forums are the easiest to set up. Ones like this one take a good deal more setting up but the people who make this forum software will do it for you if you pay them extra so special technical knowledge isn't really essential.