[cheat-master30]

Nice article, and an interesting topic to cover. Now, I'll admit my own personal site has probably way too many links in the navigation, albeit because of the somewhat high amount of modifications and features, but you're right. You should also cover maybe hiding some links in drop down members, and removing some useless things (like member list, which prior to 3.8 takes up valuable navbar space).

Agreed with the modification thing. The worst examples of this in my opinion are quick register forms, top X stats mods and various other rather pointless things (such as any clocks certain forums display for no apparent reason).

As for keeping forum descriptions short... true, I've seen people actually do things like throw shoutboxes in descriptions and the registration info in one saying 'Why to Register'. Heck, I think I even saw stuff like whole forums devoted for 'Rules' or the like, which is kind of overkill and a waste of space.