[gohat]

It needs some graphics and touching up to look nicer.

The very popular style for this type of website is to have the Your personalized view of the programming world and sections underneath in a highlighted box with the other elements, Use your personal posts-filter, etc, as small, clickable boxes underneath.

See: http://tweetingmachine.com/ (not the best example, but first one I can think of)

hope that helps, cheers