They're in the header, which itself is very little markup styled with a lot of CSS.
http://www.webdesignforums.net/sitew...t_5_21452.html has screenshots.
The markup is only around a hundred lines total for my entire header, navbar, and footer. The style is backed by 23.5 KB of CSS (which only needs to be downloaded once by the user and is then cached to save bandwidth).
Great numbers of menus != ease of navigation. You may find it intuitive simply because you are used to using discussion forum software for so long, especially vBulletin. Others have
no clue where to start. It took me forever to learn that the "CP" in "User CP" meant "Control Panel." Just saying "Control Panel" (what I do now in WDF v5) or "Edit Profile" or "Edit Options" is clearer.
It's the little things.
edit: also note the clearly exposed and labeled Seach field in the screenshots, something
critical to a design I have come to learn. Exposing it behind a DHTML menu is not as beneficial.