In the top of your MeetingPoint you can make use of a horizontal navigation bar, just below the header. There are two types that can be used, a normal category or a link category (see Horizontal navigation - link category). With this option you can easily go to the categories that are shown in the horizontal navigation.

The fact box (official name: “list of headers”) can be used directly below the “Top Story”. To get a Factbox scroll bar on your homepage follow the next steps…

Spam, unfortunately this is one of the things that comes with having an open website. But where there is a decease there is a cure….so also for this one!