[Brinnie]

PORTAL
As stated before, I do not like portals. But that's mostly because they are poorly organized and crammed with a bunch of crap.

Yours on the other hand, looks great. I'll give it a "8" as far as portals are concered. What keeps it from a 9? Two things:

LINKS: Your hover effects are highly inconsistant. I would brighten up the left hand menu with a lighter shade On color. I would also match your links to your tcat and make the over state just a shade lighter. The font used for navcontainer is weak and should probably be bold 12px.

MARGINS & BORDERS: I understand this is an art community and it's in your nature to blend. But the quadruple BG colors clash. you go from a grey mesh to a white border to a beige to an even lighter beige and then the cells are off-white. That's... Just too much nonsence for me. I would kill the mesh and make it light black, or cccccc and put some flowers out there or something.
Also match your content block text areas with your outside margin color and it would be a 9.


The forum looks great. Best I've seen in here all day.
Your DHTML navlinks are almost perfectly organized, but you missed a few calls (on error screen it doesn't work)
the gfx are good as well. However, you should consider killing the post icons. (They suck.)

What keeps it from a 10? Your messy gallery and the fact that there's nothing increadibly unique and amazing.



Forum: 8/10