Review my new design please

[Shelley_c]

I like the layout on the forumhome and everything looks neat and tidy which is a good thing but there's a few things I would consider to give certain areas some life.

For instance, The navigation menu directly underneath the logo (which doesn't seem to work for me) should be spiced up a little by adding another coloured background gradient and possibly implement icons by each link. I would abandoned this area and start afresh and designing something curvy which intergrates nicely into the logo though you may need to go into a graphics editor and get some slicing done.

Same rule for the navigation menu by the login box. I would personally tinker around in the navbar template to reorganize the layout so everything doesn't look like the standard and maybe come up with something differnt to complement that nice layout on your forumhome.

Still on the forumhome, Maybe redesign those lastpost markers for something more eyecandy and replace the images in the "what's going on " area? navbits start and I assume the navbits final will need replacing for something a little more custom.

It all looks nice but there's still a little too much blue which overppowers everything esp in the forum display. Eliminate that by introducing another colour which would break the theme out a little. Like the buttons, theres no law that states that it needs to be blue and i noticed you introduced an icon on the buttons which is good but you may want to change the base background on them andn align the text on the buttons so they look a little more uniformed.

Threadmarkers should be replace for something custom but this is minor and replacing them would take but a minute (unless your designing them yourself) in which case designing them would be a 5 minute job.

Like I said with the overpowering blue, don't let this colour dominate the style and there's no rule why icons such as the sortasc and other images needing to be blue which clashes with the background (which is also blue).

Goodluck with your forum and I do like the layout on the forumhome but it still needs tweaking.