Forum:New main page design?

Aaron from WikiaNY has been working on a new Main Page design. The key idea is to make it less confusing for new visitors and to help get them to stay and explore Wikia. So the design is simplified, with clearer links to categories and less choices overall. So here it is so far.... ... what do you think?




 * Not bad, but where do the wikizines and the collabo of the month go? --LordTBT Talk! 22:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


 * What about the WikiaHighlights, tabs, and sidebar? By stripping down the mainpage like that you remove all the things like the Wikia box, The other parts of the Help area, the recentchanges link, the edit, history, move, and watch. Not to mention that the removal of the tab bar and sidebar will remove the Searchswitch and Tabmenus such as the Wikiswitch which I setup to help other users around. That's more like making a new skin. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Mar 27, 2007 @ 04:52 (UTC)


 * My thought on this (when asked by the main page re-designers) was to have this type of new main page load when you go to www.wikia.com (as a sort of portal rather that an actual wiki "Main Page" page, like when you go to www.wikipedia.org), in which case Wikia would not be affected as the main community page for central. This then would be the default for any link to www.wikia.com or www.wikia.com/wiki/, but any links to www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia (or to anything that happens that normally goes to MediaWiki:Mainpage, such as logging in, or clicking the logo) would go to the existing page. However, this is just my opinion. Not sure if it is feasable. --Splarka (talk) 05:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Dantman, but are all those things needed on the main page? So many links, so many options, it's hard for new people to see where they should go first. My idea for this is similar to Splarka's, I too think we need a "Community Main page" and a "casual browser main page". The latter should be in the most obvious place for new people to land on the site, but I'm not sure where that would be. But all those things missing from this version (recent changes, Wikia box etc.) would just be one extra click away. I think it would work -- Sannse 11:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It makes sense. It's missing that link to the current central wikia's main page though.--Rataube 15:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

It's good for a portal, like Wikimedia's portal, but as the main page of Central Wikia...I'd say no. But as that's a portal design, it's good. :) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 16:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)