[orangeguru]

@wondercore: The site went live some time ago – https://bizzlounge.com/ – with some ugly additions. It’s based on the SocialEngine – and loads of custom code.

[orangeguru]

My suggestions:

First look – nice and clean.

But I would say it’s too spacious and “nice” for daily use.

Last year I did a similar page for a client – who wanted several columns for widgets (Blogs, Login, Chat, Community, Forum, etc).

http://orangeguru.biz/clients/bizzlounge/index.html

If the layout / type is too big you hardly see anything what’s going on on a normal sized monitor (1280×800 or x1024) without scrolling. On the other hand you’ll never fit everything on a small or big screen anyway. So the layout has to be compact on one side – but also prioritize the widgets / elements.

I suggest deflating your design a bit, resizing some sections. It doesn’t need to be as tight (in my opionion too tight) as my design mentioned above – but it would help.

D.