Forumhome like this (see inside)
 

This lets look your forumhome like on the picture included. The images are not included.

3 templates need to be modified.

edit: on "forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost" change "<if condition="$forum[title] !== "DemocracyII"">" to whatever is you first appearing category on forumhome.

I wanted to get rid of the index using height="0" but main css is overriding it, so that you will always have a gap of some pixels. That´s why i let the index intact, but i you want, you can include images in it.

If someone has an idea on get the row height to 0 without messing up the cell widths it would be highly appreciated.

Great, what about for sub forums. Is this for 3.0.1 ?

I haven´t been looking into subforums yet.

This uses vB 3.01 templates.

Btw, in order to have the " -> last post by " thingy (as on the picture) you would have to search for a phrase variable called "by_x", then copy the code to the english translation and edit it like you want.