Hello from Berlin first.

No one asked me to do anything. I'm doing it because i wanted to do it. I'm having some ideas and better to share them than to ignore them.

JS is not for the sake of using it. Every panel is an independent object and loads its own contents and calculates its own overlays. All this can be removed and calculated on the server, but it will lose part of its flexibility. Also only one overlay can be used for the panels, but that will slow down showing it, since it has to calculate where it is shown. Anyway, this is only for the first page, the internal one is almost only html and css and is much faster.

About the bright look - since the look is based mostly on css, almost nothing can stop me to make a dark skin that can be changeable from the options (only my free time ).

@Boke: That should wait for after IE6 support. I should say that even now it is quite readable without css.