Well, that forum is very simple--they basically added a top nav/ad region and left it at that. But the forum appears to be lacking a lot of the functionality of the FUD forums (the option for tree/flat view, for instance), though it would take me some time to really check out their features on a comparative basis. Really the only "improvement" I see in the terms you pose is the lack of a sidebar, allowing the full width of the screen for the posts. But here we gain back the 150 pixels in width lost to the sidebar by placing the avatar and poster info above the posts, rather than beside them, which on the elitefitness forum takes up about the same amount of screen space (width) as our sidebar. Plus, we provide additional links there for your perusal, and an ad which helps to pay for these forums so that we can keep bringing them to you.