someone needs to add a sarcasm vb tag here.
lol.

I think you have made a marvelous job if Yaxay is your role model. Personally I think it is important to have some sort of styler you look up to when you make the board (Mine was SaintDog's fresh simplicity of white). I think you have made an incredible job on the header images, ecspecially the navbar. The colours do go well togther but the postbit would look better in a blue and orange bar instead of silver.

It is alittle cluttered in the lastpost by area and your discriptions are too long. I would advise making small font a little bigger as too small makes it look lacking in content. I would merge the forums, even for a bigger board becuase they are too narrow and it is likely some wont get posted in for quiet a long time.

Overall it looks very good and I expect it turned out just the way everyone wants it, how they dreamed it would at the start. :)

That doesn't look anything like yaXay. The only forum I can think of that it "kind of" resembles is Macfora.com

Well, lots have used it somewhat as a role model. ;)