We've created the Designer Breakfast forums for you to share ideas and network with other designers so that we can all benefit from the experience. For those of you who have never posted on a forum before (well, there might be one or two of you), there are various forums, each devoted to a different aspect of life in a small design business. In each forum you’ll see various messages, known as ‘posts’. Once you’ve logged in to your account, you can add to one of the posts and continue the discussion or ‘thread’ by clicking on the title of the thread, then clicking on ‘Reply’ and finally adding your bit in the box before pressing ‘Submit. Or you can start your own topic by simply clicking on the ‘New Thread’ button, adding a topic title and your message in the Post box. If you want to see how your message will appear to other readers, click the ‘Preview’ button first.

If you’re at a dinner party and your conversation gets obscene, abusive, racist, slanderous, sexist, ageist, or just plain downright nasty, nobody will want to talk to you. It’s the same at the Designer Breakfast forums. Nobody wants any trouble here and if we feel you’re abusing the forums, we’ll ban you. Permanently. We have the technology to do it. We also reserve the right to remove posts or topics at any time and for any reason. The moderator will get rid of anything offensive as soon as possible. It also has to be underlined that all posts – including both the brilliant and the banal - made to the forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderator or webmaster (unless of course the administrators, moderator or webmaster actually writes something themselves) and so we will not be held liable.

What else? Well, if you post, you are agreeing to any information you have entered being stored in a database. We won’t be disclosing this to a third party without your consent but we cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that leads to the data being compromised. Also, this forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. And finally, the e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one). Now nip off and write something interesting.