User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-174.7.79.252-20100821084937

Here's some of my feedback so far of the screenshots:

Things I like: Overall formatting/layout Recent edits box and its location More professional feel

Things I dislike: - The large banner at the top. I want people not to wander 'accidentally' to other wikis while they view our content. It's too big of a distraction Please make it smaller or re-orient/design it to be less in your face.

- The photos box: due to copyright that surrounds a lot of images some of the wikis I edit, we don't want to be showing off we have lots of images, not to mention it's in our NOT section of our about page; we are not an image repository. I think it'd be cooler if you made a few things that could go in that spot, and lets admins select which goes there (as some things aren't for every wiki, and wikia is diverse in its topics)

-The little ribbon at the bottom feels misplaced IMO, along with the ribbon at the top (see above), I'd prefer if you found a nicer way to add it in. I'm not much on fixed elements, maybe a toolbox somewhere up?

-Automatic menus based on top categories. Definitely not one of the things I like, I'd prefer to be able to choose what our readers have in the menu, just because it's in a cool category doesn't mean it's something we want to spotlight! Please allow to be able to override the default behavior to be able to choose what is in each menu (even if you limited how many menus are possible to 3 or w/e).

I'm excited to see the current version in the beta and be able to give more feedback!