WETalkSports.com, branding, styling, design

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I wrote a long review last night and closed the dam window by mistake before I posted it lol...anyways on the home page you should consider having some more imagery, for example maybe for the background of the "Pro Football News" block and the other blocks have an image blended in the background.

The forum icons are my fav thing about the site, but there's no way anyone would be able to tell between the locked icon and no new posts icon. I would stick a lock icon on it so it's obvious.

The dropdown menus are very long and some of it will get cut off if visitors are using 800-600 or 1024-768, depending on where it gets cut it might appear that it's the end of the dropdown and they might not think to scroll down.

The forum itself has some areas with strange word wraps, screenshot attached.

I have about 25 tabs in firefox right now and it's using between 1-2%cpu, when I open your forums it jumps to 5-6% and stays there, in my experience the meta refresh with the iframe causes this so that might be something to look into...not sure if there's any alternative. The scoreboard thing is cool, if you have the ability to make it match the rest of the site it would probably look better, but perhaps you don't have a lot of control over that.

Lastly, when viewing forums there's a V in front of threads which I assumed was a prefix, but it seems it's actually a link to view the first post? Anyways add the title tag to that link so when someone mouses over the "v" it says "view first post" or whatever is appropriate.

Post again when it's complete so we can check it out...