Good good. I ended up with a bit of pale blue space above the top horizontal rule that I put round the menu, which wasn't intended but I don't know how to fix it. And yes, it looked odd to me too when I did it but we've definitely had discussions in the past that concluded that it really wasn't obvious enough that the forum etc is where people should be being channelled to, so hopefully it is an improvement.
Re the Join button: that's mostly true, with the caveat being the mailing list, which I manually fill with emails scraped from forum accounts - and our other stuff like the pubs is mainly advertised said mailing list. But I take the point.