New posts at top of page

Please have a look at my forum http://forum.japantoday.com

At the top I have some news messages. Most of the RHS of these messages are empty. It could be good to make the news half-width on the LHS half and add the latest posts (with a most popular posts toggle) on the RHS half. This is similar to another site in our market called http://www.f-ckedgaijin.com/forums/ which is a PHPbb site. (You have to supply the missing letter).

I know we can do this in ASP using stored procedures, but you could give us the option to have different layout styles -- cos you are the man!

BTW, I noticed that PHPbb has a " portal" option (like Slashdot). Is this the way that ASPplaygroudn can/will develop?

Portal - probably. I haven' t given much thought about this as I don' t want to take away your joy of designing a web site. Just kidding.