Although, if you choose your clients carefully, and believe me you will have enough to choose from, work on a couple of sites that are worth the effort, it might be a good thing... Try marketing on Twitter and other such social networks.
I actually agree with this. Do some research instead of spamming the forums, and you will be amazed what traffic you will receive simply by being smart.
Perhaps you could reboot it and get some valued members to write some informative stickies... The nonsense I have had to read through just today is too much for this little heart to bear.
Work on your <title>.
It has "- |" on the home page.
Not sure how to say that in an intelligent sounding manner. :)
On the portfolio and testimonials pages, don't use your URL in the title. This has no extra SEO benefit.
Purple... I'm undecided. I don't know what the original looked like. Personally I think it's a little bit too dark. Blame my old age, but I had to squint to read some text.