[Shelley_c]

At a glance (viewing the forum style) it's one of those styles and layouts you tend to see with those free hosted structures. I not at all keen on the style firstly because it is way too dark and images applied pave the way for inconsistency. The forum status icons look a little crammed and why use a lastpost icon for the forum_link (that does not follow the same design as the other forum status icons)?

With regards to the lastpost areas and the amount of forums you use I would also set about in aligning them so they are the same width. Each lastpost area in each catergory is a different width which throws any kind of uniformed alignment out of the window.

Nothing much to say about the style. It's dark, and way too much black used throughout the style and icons. Break the style out a little by implementing colour into the icons, button sets etc... Why not implement some blue (like you did with the logo) and inject some colour into the icons?

Overall, Just another style that doesn't offer anything different both in design and a structure layout. Goodluck regardless.