That's much better with the render standing out more.
Try taking colors from your render and make them as the backround (my tutorial covers that) and you can use brushes and change the layer modes to make it have the colors and have the brushed look.
EDIT: By the way, I like how you blended the render into the backround color. How did you do that?
You must not have GIMP then. It takes the alpha in the layer (transparency) and adds it to your selection. Also when I said blended into the backround I meant the colors, not the outline.
I am working on getting access to the old news portal under a different URL for those that would rather use that for news before we get a different news view.
It is OK though for the main page to open up on the forum in the view it was before. As long as the portal has its own URL so it can be viewed that way I do want to try it as a regular forum view for a while
I switched it to a "Standard" article forum. This will show the thread list like normal, but the threads themselves will have the first post set up above the rest of the "comments"