Mike,
Did you typed your password in uppercase?The accounts on the new site are about a month old,and if you changed your password in the meantime,use your old one.
There is a forum dedicated here:
https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards...hp?fid=179
which will answer some of you questions.
But to briefly cover it:
a)This is definitely work in progress.In the end i don't expect the final layout to resemble with the current one.
b)What you can see on the left/right columns are called modules.They can be installed/uninstalled/ordered etc... from the Venus's admin area.So,probably when we'll go live the 'Firefox' module will be removed.
c)The H2H module displays random scenarios from the ladders you're a member of.
d)Announcements are meant to have a more 'global' scope.For example,the fact that a H2H scenario has been approved or that a member has reported his 100th game might qualify as a news.The fact that we have a new member of the staff,on the other hand,might qualify as an announcement.