Design #1:
Beaver Buzz home page. If the user visiting the page is new, he can sign in by clicking on the sign in button. Old users can input their user names and passwords in the supplied boxes. The homepage also has a search bar which allows users to search for topics, user posts, etc. The main feature of the homepage is the "What's Hot?!" section which is a scroll bar interface which displays the most commented Events and Posts.
Design #2:
This design trades off how much information you get from each article preview for more articles visible on the screen at once. Â Discussion posts are sorted by topic and events are sorted by groups/hosts. 
Below is the page to create a new post or event
