The navigation bar appears on all pages. It contains six links:

Forum Home: goes to the forum's start page
Messages: goes to the Messages page.
Chat: goes to the Chat Center, if chat is enabled in the forum.
Files: goes to the File Library.
My Stuff: goes to the Preferences page.
Related Forums (dropdown list): allows a user to navigate directly
to a selected forum, if a list is available.

A Welcome box appears on all pages. It contains:

Post a message: post a new forum message.

Private Messages: Takes the user to the Private Messages page. Private
messages may be read or replied to on that page. Private messages also
may be created on that page (Send a Private Message), but this is not
the simplest way to create a new private message.

New messages to you: Takes the user to the Messages page with the Show discussions dropdown set to "Unread Messages to Me".

Logout: Takes the user to the logout page.

Find Messages: Does a message body search of messages posted in the last month. Advanced Search adds more search options.

Underneath the Google box on the left hand side of the page is a list of available Chat rooms, followed by a list of message Board Folders. The board folder list shows the title of each folder, how many message threads (discussions), and the total number of messages in each folder.

The center of the forum home page contains clickable information on most Recent Discussions, Featured Message, What’s Hot in the forum, the current forum Poll, Chat Center, Hot Links, and a Recent Visitors list.