I done a quick couple of designs a while back too, but if i'm remembering correctly then the front page is a cms addition to vbulletin so its kinda limited in design and layout and to get it looking like any of the designs posted here would take quite a bit of time/effort, if it was wp that was used for the main page or even just a webpage then it would be a whole lot easier to work with design wise but not for actual news articles and stuff from the forum.
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This was one I done last year so the font colours etc could be changed and the main banner could be changed with each new series.
The lorem ipsum writing is just filler text.
