This is a website I'm doing as a hobby to use my Skills as a Web and Graphic Designer.
My main idea was to create something professional like CNN or ABCnews,to collect news and update them with the latest news by using the user friendly programming language like ASP, with the idea of a NEWSPAPER or a TV-Channel whoever is interested in buying the site from me.
I think you should make the forum width smaller for continuity with the rest of the site, i like the icons and color scheme, home page is a little busy(lots of stuff moving around) compared with the other news sites you mentioned. Lookin good though
That's a Good point, I was thinking in going one direction using only tech news and maybe have 3 categories of different news, also I'm already working in the width of the forum.
Nice colors, I like both the logo and the login button. One thing though: I'd either reduce the height of the top frame, or remove the frame and built the top navigation into the forum pages. Doesn't look to good at 800x600 screen resolution.