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it pretty much possible. For your first question, you can use this code that Luky posted here once (You'd have to put that in a forum's description):

Code:

<span style="float: left; width: 30%;  margin-left: 5px;"><a href="forum link here" class="forumtitle">forum title here</a><img src="image link here" alt="" style="float: left;" /><br />forum description here</span><span style="float: left; width: 30%;  margin-left: 5px;"><a href="forum link here" class="forumtitle">forum title here</a><img src="image link here" alt="" style="float: left;" /><br />forum description here</span>

And the solution to your second problem is surprisingly simple, the letter you see is just a .gif that you can replace your default "Forum - New" icons in "Styles / Pictures and colors / List of the pictures / Icons for forum".

Hello,
I have interesting with this topic..
Can you tell me where is the Forum Decriptsion please ? What i found its Site Decripstion...
Or you mean Homepage message ?

Thankyou

admin>>forum>>select the forum>>there is description