Nigel, a news page would be good for this type of thing. The front page of Electro-Tech could be a snippet of the latest forum posts with a link to visit the full forum page which would take you to Electronic Circuits Projects Diagrams Free >
Underneath the new posts section on the front page, you could run a news area where news items are posted. New products, new electronic developments and other items of interest could then be posted there.
But personally I haven't got an objection to this thread anyway, I was actually quite interested because it's relevant to a project I'm doing.
Brian