Forum:New Homepage -- What do you think?

Hi everyone! We just launched a new homepage for Community Central -- take a look! Our goal was mostly to clean it up and make it more interesting and welcoming. But along with the facelift, we're introducing two other changes:

1) Founder &amp; Admin Central -- A space for wiki founders and admins to share advice and get help on matters that are specific to those roles. This is still in its early stages, so keep an eye out for more content there in the future.

2) Community Blogs -- Also in its early stages, this is a new categorization system for user blogs. We're starting off with four categories: Introductions, Wiki Advice, Opinions, and Wiki Promotions. Please consider this an experiment, and try to start using the categories to see if they help make things better for you (but there's no need to enforce it rigidly at this point). If the categories work out well, we can also use them to build that Featured Blog Posts category we've been talking about. I'd love your feedback.

Coming soon:

3) Community Guidelines. We hear you loud and clear that we need clearer policies and guidelines on Community Central, but we want to wait until some of these changes have shifted into place before we set them down in stone. In the meantime, basic common sense guidelines apply: treat each other with respect, block outright spam and vandalism, and try to start using the blog categories to help build content organization.

So what do you think of the new look?

Side bar looks good,Like the section summaries as well--Tama63 Talk Twitter 19:13, June 28, 2011 (UTC)

Shame on you Dopp for not signing your post. Anyway. Looks pretty good.--


 * I like it. It finally looks like a main page ;-). I like that the community created resources finally get some endorsement through the Community Blogs section. Not sure about the Admin Central Forum though. I'd say about 90% of the Community Central Forum threads are created and answered by various wiki admins already, so having two forums covering basically the same area might be confusing. Also, looking forward to the expansion and updates for the Help section — Sovq 19:34, June 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * "Shame on you Dopp for not signing your post." Eeeee!! Guilty as charged! Man, i've been hanging out in the blog posts too much lately. And yep, we know there's a lot of overlap between the plans for the two forums, but we think it will make sense soon enough. :) --Dopp http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 19:45, June 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * The width at Admin Central is odd, as it's fixed - and so doesn't fit a full screen. Would a percentage width be better here? --  Random Time  19:47, June 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Lemme guess, monobook? Hmm... --Dopp http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 19:49, June 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Good point, most visitors use Wikia, so it probably wouldn't make that much difference. Just seemed a strange choice. --  Random Time  19:50, June 28, 2011 (UTC)