[Shelley_c]

Interesting. In explorer the background is blue whilst displaying in firefox the background is red. Maybe I'm seeing things? or going a little crazy maybe?

Anyway, The navbar area looks clean, uncluttered and the rollover effects are nice and subtle so nice work on that. Logo is simple text but there's nothing wrong with that because it compliments that area nicely.

However, that's were the good points stop. I'm not to keen on the blue and although I normally do like a bit of blue in my styles, I don't think the blue variants compliment each other very well. Maybe put this down to user preference but (for me) it doesn't rock my boat.

Boardmarkers (status icons) aren't very creative and it only adds to that barren,empty feeling on the index page. If you could somehow use the colours from the navbar with a touch of yellow throughout the style then I think you would have one nice style. As it stands the index page alone doesn't look very inviting.

Whenever I style (and I hate styling) I make a point in replacing all default images. So, I think you should take that onboard and replace the default images still present throughout your forum. I noticed in the Whats going on? area that you still have the vb default images on? So, because they are on the index page (and the index page is the first thing visitors look at, that your priority is to replace all the default images on there, then move on to the threadlist area, then the postbit and any other area with default images still attached.

Like I said, If you used the same colours that you used in your navbar (and design in the same theme) with a nice vibrant yellow, I think this would be a nice looking style.