This is an old thread about to be absolutely deprecated by the upcoming move from ITt themes to talk.maemo.org themes. It's better to close it and let it go.

If you are in a hurry please open a new thread specific to the Minimalistic theme, although it is probably better to wait just few days until the new theme comes. http://maemo.org got the new design today and Reggie has started to work in the corresponding theme that (apparently) will be quite lightweight and perhaps even 'minimalistic' compared to the current default one.

The problem you mention about the load of the main page should change. talk.maemo.org will be the main page of the forums and http://maemo.org will be the main-main.