Advice needed on my site/forum design!

[Kohhal]

Ok,

So I'm working on a new design for my site , all pages are based on vBulletin(vbIndex hack).

The frontpage is the basis for how I want the whole site to look ie. logo(will be changing slightly), colour scheme, top navigation bar and columns(some may need to be dropped depending on the page viewed).

My problems: for a start I'm not sure of the best way for the forums to look when trying to retain this design. I've done a bit with the colour scheme but I'm not happy, suggestions would be appreciated.

My biggest problem right now is getting the forums to look right with this design. On the front page the top nav menu is joined to the left column, completing the look I'm after but on any of the forum pages, the top nav menu and forum buttons are kinda just floating below the logo as there is no left column, what to do? The "white space" to the sides of the frontpage looks fine I think but not so when viewing the forum, something needs to change?

I will probably do the "space between category" template mod but something else is need to make the tables look better then? I don't want to go overboard with images on all the tables as speed is important, it just needs something else?

I might make the forum buttons the same style as the top menu ones, not sure of the best way or how to locate them though? I think I will get rid of the breadcumb too, opinions?

All other pages in the top nav menu will eventually be changed to the frontpage format, suggestions on the best way for any of them to look would also be appreciated, though I'm not worried about them too much for now.

Sorry about the length of this post, just the ideas in my head spilling out

Thanks for reading and hopefully you guys will have some suggestions for me,

G

[Kohhal]

Made some changes, split categories and droppped the Moderator column, any opinions?

[Tony G]

I think I commented on this at vB.org..

[Kohhal]

Yep, thanks. Just looking for as much feedback as possible