I'm designing a portal to be the new home page for our forums (www.sounddomain.com) when we switch to this software in the coming months.

We have a very specific design in mind and I wanted to check and make sure all the features we wanted are supported on the portal and that anything we didn't want could be removed to make room for static content and links.

here's a quick list of everything on my mock-up related to the forums:

- Search field
- Login / Password fields
- Recent topics
- Forum news
- Shout box
- Top posters

looking through your forum here it sounds like everything is doable except maybe the Login and password fields which I couldn't find an answer for.

I'm also curious if there are any standard features that can't be removed or have a fixed position that I would need to work around.

any help?