1. Reedit the footer
1a. The tags section is just too long.
1b. The CSS styling do not match the site header and content area at all - look at the paragraph (change it to sans-serif for easier web-reading).
2. Disable the animation
2a. It is annoying and 'laggy'.
2b. It increase the loading time and hence waste your site bandwidth - you don't really need it.
(I really like the initial loading animation, don't delete that).
Now that I reviewed you site, why don't you post a review on your blog about the forums in my signature in exchange?
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