Nice work on the new design Mike.
Love the new features of the download section. Sorting and selecting brand or NFS-game is really smooth.
Really improves functionality of the site.
I also like the "Random NFS Addon" (although i think it should show only files from the selected game category).
The navigation bar at top is functional and effective.
For the forum the new design also looks fantastic.
The projects category is a neat idea too, im sure people will make good use of it.
Overall a very bright design, giving the site a fresh new look
I got some ideas for design tweaking, though. First off, agreeing with Remko, kinda miss the Freak-DS pics (at least for the homepage)
then maybe...
- while you are at it... add some more filter functions to the download section (e.g. searchbox would be nice, or searching for authors)
- Bigger pictures (increase size of preview pictures in download section, also featured car at the front-page should have pic at least as big as the SOTD)
- on the forums i find the box with user info is a little too wide, squeeze that a little to make more room for the actual text post (speaking from PC-browser perspective)
Everything else is a matter of taste, i guess
Just my 2 Cents. Greetings