Let me know what you guys think of the first draft, colors, design. Any suggestions are welcomed!

-The orange is changing to blue on the side menus
-The image of Louis (left in header) is smashed a bit will be fixed.

I actually like the orange side menus. It looks pretty good overall.

I love it, looks fantastic Try using some more of the orange in the header somewhere ...

The picture to the left of lois is stretched a lot.

I think it looks nice, although 64 bit is right... you might want to fix the picture of lois.

Hi there!

I like the design, has some "positive" feeling in both images and the colors!
If I would have anything to say about changes I would think about changing the top "swoshhy thing" (the lightblue thing that goes down) to align a bit more to the left, that way Louise hand will layer over that bluestuff and look really nice. I would also up the size for your header and make the line space tighter.

Finally I would just align the orange boxes with the blue main ones (they are a few pixels wrong ) and maybe tighten up on the top because I think it's a bit to long between the welcome box and the forums main content

Hope it helps, looks really good though!

The images in the header seem to be a bit stretched. And I'd say create a nice logo instead of having that plain text.

i agree with others the picture of lois seems very stretched to me, but overall awesome forum skin

sounds good

Its too small, Make it a bit wider.

Also, make the end on the navigation bar not rounded. Make it straight/line up w/the sides of the content area.

The big light blue thing in the header looks weird too, what is it?

Hope this helps

I know NOTHING about graphic design, but I would put more orange in the header or main area somewhere. Overall I like it a lot but don't make it all blue.
J