Sorry, but...

[AlaskanKare]

I'm sorry, but I really find all the other gobbly gook taking up most of the page space distracting. I come for the forum, not for the advertising and Office.com stuff.

Isn't there a way to at least make the forum section bigger?

I do love the forums for Html, though! A place to finally discuss everything and anything about webpages. A great help to those of us who design on the side.

[Dave Swift]

When I first visited the re-designed site, I thought I was on the wrong site!
After checking that it was htmlforums, I thought: "Oh no - what have they done? Office.com has taken over the Network!!"

But after a few days I got used to it, and I'm sure you will too. :)

[cloud9]

Why not reconfigure the php to only show the office.com header on the homepage, it slows down the forums alot. You should be able to keep the banner easily. After all, it is cached after one view and no-one looks at it anyway. Well do you?