I tried to upload a small image for dressing up the featured-variant announcement to the /membergraphics/MShectochess directory through ftp, but got a 'permissuon denied' error. (I know there are other ways for an editor to upload image files there, but in other cases the ftp worked without problems.)
The announcement on some pages (including the Featured Variants page) uses black font in the black box, which doesn't make it very readable.
Some anomalies: