Title of the topic at least 10 characters? Why the restriction?

Let's see how a new post looks like.

so how does it looks this far?

So far this is the skin I like the most (as of now you should see buttons with turquoise text in them with signs, on a light grey background). Turquoise and blue in general for that matter fit nicely into the aquatic theme of being a maritime alliance. My only complain is the unfinished "portal" button in the navi bar at the top. But I'm sure I will eventually find some kind of solution for this...

red text color is teh evil on this background....

Yeah, I like the skin to, I can remove the portal, if you would like me to... I know how, it would take me seconds.

We're not in a rush as you said. Though I don't really know if we need the PORTAL at all. Haven't thought about the usefulness of it. Let's see....

The same search function can be used from the navi bar,
The latest topics section is nice, but not really a "musthave", because I don't think people will spend a lot of time on the portal watching the latest topics scrolling by... they will rather go for the forum itself.
hmm...
The statistic can be seen at the bottom of the usual forum next to "WHO IS ONLINE" icon.

I'm a bit tired now and wanna sleep so I'm lazy right now to check other options for the portal that can be chosen, but after this short consideration I find none of the features on the portal at this time useful.

Let's decide tomorrow....

Ok, I'm getting tired as well... it;s 2:51 am here in Scotland.