First of all, good work and on continuing to improve your forum site. It's great that you have a few associates and friends assisting in fostering community as that can be very hard initially.
The first thing I noticed was some spacing is off here:
You can use Stylebot extension (Chrome) to figure out what div tag is causing this issue and change padding/margin.
Second, I realized I still didn't know what the site was about - it just didn't stick out in my mind. That's because my first impression of the site was a page of text on the forum home page itself. Here's what it's like right now:
I highlighted the area where I think you could drop in a pretty graphic with your owl character. Perhaps you could have something like this:
The advantage of having an image is improved understanding and recall. Sometimes it's useful to use a photograph of your ideal client (a woman or a man, a younger man or a younger woman, depending on type of visitors you get) next to a headline. Then list in the most specific and clear words what benefits they will recieve. You can also mention a problem that your ideal visitor is facing - "Don't wait for traffic to come to you. Promote your site with friendly enterprenuers" for example.
The small text alone without a graphic on the landing page isn't enough in this case. As I said earlier, the impression of my first visit was "what does this site do again?" - Visitors shouldn't be asking : )!
I had the same exact problem with one of my own sites, where I had assumptions about what was important to fix on my site...however, I had completely overlooked the simplest thing: what my site does, clearly explained with a graphic or headline. Otherwise, the visitor can't continue : "did I land on the right site? "
