Hmm...the front page looks more professional, but it's take some getting used to for me. I feel like the naked view makes things look cleaner. I wasn't sure in the third question whether you were refering to the home page or article view. I assumed you meant the home page, in which case I wouldn't mind either way. I did feel the old format a bit easier to navigate, though. I don't know what it was.

For the third question I meant we'd get rid of the header here (with the Skyrim dude) and replace it with the static menu that follows you.

I should also mention that with the new layout it's also now mobile compatible. I've also re-done the navigation to make it slightly more obvious/easier to navigate since posting this, though I think it's mostly unfamiliarity. After all, all of the navigation links are the same, just in a different place.

I guess the Page->Category->Article stuff is gone, but I doubt most of you ever read the articles from there anyway.

I love the new layout for the front page, like Squishy said, it is definitely much much more professional and sleek. I think however, it may be a bad move to turn the entire forum into that though, as it would probably be not only a hard task, but something that would definitely take a long time to get used to, and in the long run may even hinder you.

I think you've done an amazing job on the coding and I'm actually learning to do what you're doing. Like I posted, I'm learning HTML and CSS this year. I'm curious what else there would be to updates there could be on the site. I can't wait, and I hope that over time it gets easier to for articles to be posted and such, along with the evolving of the site.