Thanks again Pert for all your help, and I hope this thread and your comments will be of use to others looking for more information as they create their own custom boards. The best advice I can give is to study how others have done it, but of course one needs to be pretty well educated on a lot of topics to begin with, which I suppose anyone should be who has gotten to this point. But I myself have gotten to this point and I don't feel hardly educated at all.
I hope I have not trespassed any etiquette but I took the liberty of adding our humble board to the Unofficial List of 3rd Party Boards page. If I should not have done or did it incorrectly of course please let me know.