[Shelley_c]

I'm on a 20 meg connection and when I waited for roughly 2 minutes for the front page to load I was expecting something dazzling, somewhat breathtaking. Greeted by a clevage and some mediocre flash effects the page is absolutely redundant. There are other alternatives to creating a frontpage without the abnormally long loading times.

Do away with the frontpage splash area and your half way there in keeping your guests remotely interest in going further (example: clicking to view your forums).

Firstly, The scrolling registration box is extremely annoying and I had to walk away at that point and looked back to check if a black box was following me into the kitching pressuring me to register. Again, and I'm sure it's being suggested in this thread.. do away with the scrolling script, it will drive your guests nuts at this point (after the backlash of the splash screen) you'll be very lucky if any guests will stick around let alone be enticed to register (which is your goal).

The style isn't that great though it isn't visually bad either though trying to review and give feedback on the logo (guess what) that annoying registration box is blocking my view.

Like others have stated, There's too many forums for such a new site. If your guests have not left by this point, they are sure to have left feeling daunted, exhausted and possibly tempted in firewalling your site so they don't return and go through the ordeal again. Keep the forums relevant to the site and what your site is all about. Reading the thread title I was expecting some kind of styling/graphic site but I don't see any areas that remotely resemble styles/graphics etc.

Overall the style isn't that bad but the whole ordeal in reviewing your site was. Think how guests must feel and take on board what people have said so that you gain those guests to members which will give you a lot more satisfaction and achievment in building up a community.