On the forumhome you can't see the descriptions of the subforums. So if you want your users to be able to find it out use this little tweak.
Open up the template manager and then find the template forumhome_subforumbit_post.
Find:
Replace with:
This should work on all versions of vB but I've not tested it.
Open up the template manager and then find the template forumhome_subforumbit_post.
Find:
PHP:
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>Replace with:
PHP:
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><span title="$forum[description]">$forum[title]</span></a>