How about this...

Oh and if you are wondering yes I have coding experience...
Thank you for listening.

And 1 more thing stop it from changing every body to everypony.

requests are one thing, demands are another. coming to a my little pony dueling academy and not expecting my little pony? isnt that a tad strange? we are not looking for coders, why ever would we make non pony themes for a pony site, and the ranking system is close to par for the course....without stealing from other academies types.

Well, duh! It is a pony forum. What did you expect, Batman? -Shot-
As for your second request, it's a good point, but for the wrong reasons. The reason would be a more efficient chat box that you could use without having to keep the front page open all the time, and with less glitches and more options.
As for the ranking system, it's up to the staff to decide, even if it doesn't suit you. And when you say "60-card deck", I assume you're using a Magical Merchant Mill deck, otherwise, I don't know of any other legit deck that uses sixty cards, but that's beyond the point. Now the reason why decks with more than forty cards are bad is usually because of terrible deck flow. You will usually get bad draws most of the time, and your pulls won't be that promising. However, if one manages to build a well-developed engine for the deck, and dead draws are rare, I don't think the no "more than 40 card" rule should count in such cases. Although I do agree with you that testing could sort of use some development, it's not my place to decide.
Now for the website design, I'll have to agree. I don't mind the pony theme, but it's quite simple. It would still be possible to fix the widgets, the background colors, the styles, and whatnot, while still sticking to the pony theme. The banner you see up there is for the holidays I guess. The buttons at the top need to be centered, and a select few images might have to be used, but if you use a custom theme, it should supply you with some. Also, coding won't help much unless we're going into some of the deep designs the ordinary forum functions can't handle, like giving topics and image, changing the background without dealing with the forum provider's glitched uploader, etc.
Don't worry about the censor; you'll get used to it eventually.
Just so you know, Princess, there is no such thing as stealing a forum's testing style; you just work on what suits you best. Some forums like testing systems with very long ranges for accurate (yet much more difficult) testing, others with short ones just to minimize any counting errors and to keep track of stuff with ease. It depends. Some staff are serious about testing, others are, well, just feel like getting it done as soon as possible. Also, usually, the three aspects most testing systems focus on are "card knowledge" (good choices for cards and monsters in the Extra deck), "deck efficiency"(how the decks the testee uses flow with ease and give few dead draws), and "ruling knowledge" (usually with the least amount of points where a single ruling mistake would cross out one point, or if a situation was not handled as it should have been through abusing the rules). If you want to add some more, it's up to you, but these are the main three that will usually give the best results for testers and testees alike.

you are quite wise kimo, i wish i was on when you were so we could talk.

mattattack347 wrote:And 1 more thing stop it from changing every body to everypony.

It also changes mon ey to bits.