Thanks so much Denee! It took me about 3 days on and off to draw the little icons for the home page (it's harder than you think to come up with a symbol to represent each forum ) but I think it makes a world of difference to the rather bland looking old version. It's got a LOT more character now I also made some other minor cosmetic changes e.g. the blogs page. Thanks again for your comments Denee Makes it all worth it.
Thanks Giz! You should have been around when we had the first major redesign of the site in February. Toni thought she had overdone it on the wine when she logged on