as for the homepage design, thanks for appreciating the simplicity (as that was the goal), but we felt it really failed to illustrate the activity that makes sito *alive*. if the home page is getting 10 times the hits of any other page, we wanted it to *show off* what was going on -- so that a first-time visitor hits there and says "hello? what is this?" and explores; rather than leaping to the text-heavy page linked from somewhere else and just being a little bored by it.

thanks for the comments. we will try to get the other pages in line with our new design ideas so it all kinda fits together.