Don't worry, I'm just giving feedback. I'm not expecting anything instantaneous. I understand this is a one man show.
But here's some idea for what you could do:
I removed the "What's New" and "Forum" bar and moved the search there because "What's New" is the same as "New Posts" and "Forum" is the same as the little house icon right below and the banner link. Essentially I find that thing is useless lol
I don't know if what I propose is at all possible though. I mean, changing the background color to black sure is, but reorganizing the search bar location...