Thanks for the comments and I don't think the plans are to make things more lively (flash, etc.), but rather cleaner. I've never thought that there was much wrong with our layout, but I didn't think it was great either.

We'll definitely mock things up and you can look at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/default2.asp for some ideas. Nothing definite, but there are some ideas there.

Also, I added the "join the discussion" link. Not sure why I waited so long for that one.