Okay I've just figured out the answer to this whole dilemma. I was messing around in the editor, and I figured out that I could add widgets. One of them was the chat box, and it would display to the left, like all the others you now see. But there was a problem with it, as the chat box turned out to be just as small as the other widgets, not even room for a "log in" button. So the true answer to this problem is on the homepage. Scroll down to the chat box, and click where it says chat box. This opens a new window, in which the chatbox is displayed about twice as large than it is on the homepage. You leave this window open, then go back to the homepage and roleplay on the forums.