Yesterday, I brought home a new, large (27 inch) monitor which I have set at it's max resolution - 1920 x 1080 resolution. The attached image shows what I am greeted with when I go to browse the Photography Gallery, which I do almost every day. A full page of headers & not a single thumbnail until I scroll down! Just for fun, I loaded this screenshot into Photoshop & broke down the percentages for the various vertical components of the page:

15% Web browser header
25% Renderosity header
15% Generic gallery header
10% Marketplace ad banner
35% Photography Gallery header
0% The thumbnail previews I actually want to see

The Photography Gallery header actually had more content that I have to scroll to see. I could reduce the footprint of my web browser header a little, but that still wouldn't get me to the thumbnails. I can only imagine what folks working at a lower resolution would see. I checked some of the other galleries to see if they might have a smaller footprint & the best one I found was the Photoshop Gallery, which had no header at all & on which I could at least see the first row of thumbnails.

This is not what a well-designed web experience is supposed to be like - headers are not supposed to take up more than an entire page & prevent users from seeing any content at all without scrolling. I can suggest a few possible solutions:

Use some of the wasted horizontal space for content

Use more dropdowns

Encourage whoever is responsible for maintaining the various galleries to reduce their header bloat

Make images & text smaller

Eliminate non-essentials!

I am sure others can come up with other suggestions. I offer this as constructive criticism from someone who has been a member for a long time & who really appreciates what the Renderosity community has to offer.