Inserting a New Center Page

[Bert Candusio]

Hi all.
Our Group is desperately trying to work out how to do the following:
Instead of the actual forum being the home page, we would prefer for a Welcome Page as well as the VB side panels, banner etc to be shown first.
First Example is the actual Forum: www.darksky.net.au
Second is what we are trying to achieve as the Home page: http://theastronomer.tripod.com/NEW_MRO/trial_run.html
We want to be able to create links including other pages and of course, the forum..
We can use Skype to solve the issue..on line
'ANY' assistance will be Greatly appreciated.
Bert and Tammy