Select "REGIONS" from the same window you use to place 'Doodads.' Make sure that the "new region" box is selected (green) and then drag your mouse on the map where you want to make snow. Then right click the new region listed in the other window and select EDIT REGION. A new window should apear. At the bottom you'll see a drop box with different weather effects. Choose the one with snow and you'll have snow flakes on no time.
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"
I would like to see it again like Ghan had it the first time with pagination though - without the pagination that view will not work but with pagination it just might...