User blog comment:Susanolivia/Experience the new Wikia/@comment-93604-20100926123643

I have some ideas for the top area without increasing its size. See the top area on this "new look" wiki: I suggest putting one big ad there, instead of a narrow banner. That will make advertisers ecstatic. An ad there will get viewed a lot more than ads anywhere else. Paste a big ad over the whole top space.
 * http://twilightsaga.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Then move all the navigation, number of pages, random page, wiki activity, search, "Twilight Wiki", etc. to the top of the sidebar. Put some of it in show/hide sections in the sidebar to conserve space in the sidebar. Keep the current detailed navigation found in the current sidebar. Maybe put it in a show/hide section to conserve space in the sidebar.

See examples of multifunctional sidebar search, and detailed sidebar, site navigation with many links:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - see show/hide sections in sidebar.

Keep only a single line of small-font Wikia navigation at the very top of the page for navigating the rest of Wikia. This is a much cleaner look that will generate lots of ad money.

Keep ads out of content space. Put other ads only in the sidebar or at the bottom of the page. The wider sidebar allows more than just the super-narrow ads currently used.

Get rid of the proposed one-size-fits-all, fixed-width, content space. Or make fixed-width an option. Just as advertisers do not like narrow ads, many people do not like narrow-width content space.

By the way, a preview would be nice when trying to comment here.