well, all of us have certain places to visit. Let's take today: I have been checking the news story about snowboarding that you wrote. I've been looking/commenting in the journal about Summer's dream, I've been checking out this threads, and when I get mail, I check that. Wouldn't it be nice to have a hot link to each of the "happening" areas of Ezabel that you are particularly interested in?

So my idea is to have a button at the top of each of the threads, journals, and news stories, which would add a direct link to the top of your page. This would be called Hot Links (which would reside at the top of your page--similar to the "latest Informative") could have up to 5 hot links of the stories, journals, and threads that you are most interested in (the hottest) keeping track of. This way you don't need to navigate through the Forums, or to the Home page to get to news stories--the hot links get you straight to where you are going.