[Shelley_c]

I couldn't quite put a word to it to describe your style which is why i refrained from giving it a critique. So, I'd agree with what one of the members (further up this thread) said that the style and images look cartoonish, somewhat chunky which I personally feel doesn't look to good on a designers forum. Did you actually designthe icons and images throughout the board? Because It's always good practice (especially if your a graphics orientated site) to design your own icons and images) and I'm sure these icons (esp on the navbar) are pre-made.

With regards to the style, It looks nice (if you were a console based site) It looks the type of style you would use on an xbox site and It doesn't feel like a graphics site.

Reviewing the icons in the dropdown menu of the navbar. The icons look blurry and could be a lot crispier/sharper. I sense you didn't design these? Reason for that statement is because when graphics are scaled down they loose quality (unless your dealing with vectors) which i use to desgn images/icons. I'd suggest designing some icons (try using the Pen tool) and see the difference bewteen the quality of icons that you could potential produce.

I find the forum staus icons (again as stated above) blurry, visualy quality being mediocre. I'm not sure they suit a designers site and would be mistaken and related to an xbox themed style. Again, with the images, (what's going on area) it's hard to view the icons and being crammed in such a small space inside the "X" the quality looks mediocre.

It's not a bad style, just could be sharper/crispier with regards to the icons and images dotted throughout the forum.