Web Site Framework

I'm putting together somewhat of a social website. It's not another social network, but it is a site to be used in a social setting (non-professional). It's going to need to be very simple, but I would like it to have a spark of flair as well.

Think a mixture of twitter and chatroulette (not for the functionality but the style). The simplicity of chatrou开发者_如何学Clette but the flair of Twitter.

Here's my issue. I was putting the UI together a few nights ago, and I was using JQuery UI elements to create it. It just felt too....professional. I really don't know how to explain it. The JQGrid is something that looks like it's meant to be in a CRM at a huge software company, all of the accordion/buttons/tabbed elements look like they should all be in a enterprise web app. I just don't get that "friendly/casual" feel from JQuery UI.

The same issue with ExtJs as well. I'm TERRIBLE with CSS and Photoshop however, which is why I was looking to some JS frameworks in the first place for UI on my site.

Do you guys know of any cool frameworks or anything where I can add that friendly look without going too professional, and that I preferably don't have to build up myself =/

Thanks guys.

If you don't feel like re-inventing the wheel, what about using an available framework like Ning?

http://www.ning.com/

Although I've never used it myself, I know some startups done with it and it seems to meet their requirements.

Remember that most of the times it's best to start small. Get something working first and then move on to perfectionism.