lol the nav bar links are just to get to the templates. we'll make them proper once we can get it coded. I like the slideout login idea, but i'm lazy to make it :p

any ideas what to use the bottom dark areas for?

In jQuery it would not be too difficult for someone to make it :P Yeah I figured the nav was temporary.

For the bottom, I suggested to cut it down to just have search and copyright, but if you wanted to add things, you could either have top rated or most popular or something.

I'm pretty sure he meant to say Kagura.

Also we were discussioning the mockup on teamspeak and concluded with something along these lines:

> Move recent blogs to the right, with an accordian style effect that can open each blog's content when you click or hover. The Active Users can stay under those blogs, and you can click a link to see more recent blogs. This allows for a lot of space for more recent activity.

> Move recent activity to the left. It can show more information that is normally in the tooltip in the actual feed because of the extra space.

> Activity feed could have sections such as "Friends Activity | Site Activity | Games | Examples | qDB".

> Get rid of the light diagonal lines under the 4 previews up top. Too much whitespace under the "newer and older". Should keep the style of the lower 'newer' and 'older' buttons but make them a tiny bit smaller, and use them in both places.

> Like I said before, no login on the bottom. But instead you could replace it with the most recent news posts, or put it below the recent blogs or recent users. You cold also put the "new users" section down there, along with the top rated stuff i mentioned before.

> Add a simple block list that allows a user to block people from their blog postings on the recent blogs and recent activity.

All of that being said,

this is assuming that you would like to allow the ability of site growth while still keeping the feeling of connectedness of the community.

This is my opinion on the matter, but I'm not sure if other people would like there to be change or not. Personally, I like the feeling when theres a guarentee that someone will see and comment my content because theres a decent number of people online.