Thanks for the feedback. I'll be releasing it once it's all done, which should be tonight, if not then tomorrow.
The main focus was to literally dumb it down as much as I could whilst still giving people the options to do what they generally do on forums, so you'll notice there isn't a main navigation, as it's been moved out of the way beneath the board stats. I've removed the footer completely as it's not really needed. I've moved the buddy list into the bottom nav and removed the current time stat so that they're not cluttering the panel area, which can now be used for social network buttons.
If anyone can think of anything else that I can strip from the forum to simplify it even more then please let me know! I was considering removing the whole of the panel and replacing it with a couple of drop down menus? But I quite like the look of the panel area so maybe drop downs would make it look too empty.
Updated OP with image of the CSS buttons. Just need to sort out the Multi Quote CSS button, and then I can do the icons.
The main focus was to literally dumb it down as much as I could whilst still giving people the options to do what they generally do on forums, so you'll notice there isn't a main navigation, as it's been moved out of the way beneath the board stats. I've removed the footer completely as it's not really needed. I've moved the buddy list into the bottom nav and removed the current time stat so that they're not cluttering the panel area, which can now be used for social network buttons.
If anyone can think of anything else that I can strip from the forum to simplify it even more then please let me know! I was considering removing the whole of the panel and replacing it with a couple of drop down menus? But I quite like the look of the panel area so maybe drop downs would make it look too empty.
Updated OP with image of the CSS buttons. Just need to sort out the Multi Quote CSS button, and then I can do the icons.