I just wanted to say that the menu bar at the bottom of the page is great. Nice job Dani and whomever else worked on this idea. My only problem that I can not is with regards to the cursor being hovered over any link in IE8 because when I do, a status bar shows up at the bottom left corner of the page which covers up the fields "Recently Updated Articles" and "Recommended". Other than that (and it's not a big deal really), I find that menu bar to be quite usefull.
Just my 2 pennies!