Hello Robbie,
Every time when I look for Joo!CM it looks empty and filled with avatars to navigate wich you use only once or rarely. Why don't you pimp the Joo!CM page? A little more action. Now a guest sees only 3 avatars. No additional info to let them sign up.
After sign up you see all the avatars to navigate. For a start its ok but after choosing a own avatar some can be hidden under a settings avatar. Then you get even more empty space but ....
Why don't you put in this empty space the latest posts, some pictures when you include some gallery ( I don't know what you want to control more
)or headers of articles, or ....
When I login in Joo!CM why do I also login in Joomla? could this be disconnected.
So you create two levels. A level of Joo!XX users (who can login in JOO!CM) and users who can login in as Joomla website user. With a checkfield you could grand users access to Joomla or Joo!XX or both.
Keep up the good work,
Only thinking to make Joo!BB the best board for Joomla.
Hennepdesk