User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-1474707-20120920153207

The tiny space at the top looks very wrong on all the wikis I've tried it on - and there's no way anything can be put there on the background that will be visible or appropriate. You said it's "to provide better visual separation between Wikia-wide content (the header), ads, and the wiki-specific content", but it's not is it - it's actually to remove separation between the different advert slots. When this sort of thing kicks in, you want the page to look less like a Doctor Who page with some bits of Little Big Planet advertising, but a Little Big Planet themed page with some little bits of doctor who put onto it.

As for the expanded Wiki navigation - it's just awkward to use! I've said this before, but here goes nothing again: Try, on this wiki, going to the "support" heading and then playing the steady-hand-game of selecting "help pages" on the left. Drop down menus were far better, especially as the most important links go on the 1st and second levels, so it's better to have the easy navigation between levels 1 and 2 and the trickier navigation between level 2 and 3, rather than what you've done.