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Positives-
Really like the colour scheme, the light blue and grey goes very well. as well as the white. Especially like the header. It's quite like the Strada logo. Very easy to navigate. Looks very good on the iPhone

Working as designed :) Wayne should feel proud even though I've deviated a little from his design to make it work on different screen sizes.

Criticisms
Front page is messy, two different sets of links which is just a bit muddled. One clear and concise set of links would benefit this page. Subheadings also messy on IE. Basically, it looks very presentable (other than the two different pairs of forum links) on the iPhone, but on browser its not so presentable.

As a nice comparison, I think sub forum categories like this would be nice, if you could do them:
http://www.mtbe.co.uk/

I don't get what you're showing me on MTBE. Is it the forum titles and hierarchy that you don't like on the test site, or the presentation as a big list?

Did you comprehend that grey links contain threads marked read, and light blue posts contain unread threads?

Re: The header and footer.

The header is basically the Top 5 links, plus the login and logout.

The footer is all of the other links that people visit frequently enough to make it convenient, but not enough to make it part of the Top 5.

They're presented like that, rather than being hidden, because it works better for touch interfaces, search engines and large screens. It doesn't work well on small screened desktops, but it turns out we don't have many users in that camp... we have people with big screens (above 1024px wide) or who are mobile. For the users on small screened desktops, I agree that scrolling down fast would leave you with shitloads of links.

The design pattern is taken from sites like http://www.boingboing.net/ which have a few key links at the top, and then at the bottom have a links section in the footer with categories to make sense of them.