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<blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 4117349" data-attributes="member: 50304">Right now, the Navigation is brutal.The Search section is poorly executed and there is really no logical manual way to navigate between topics and content.You need to form and enforce a topical hierarchy so users can browse your content by topic.Also, separate your Personal Utilities from your Site Navigation. All the custom crap I can do on my profile and homepage and whatever shouldn't be cluttering my main navigation like it is right now. Think something more like PHP Bulletin board systems in that regard and less like LiveJournal.Your content display area is poorly executed. Right now you lose way too much reading room to gutters caused by centering it on 800px wide resolution and then eating the gutters caused by seldom-used utilities like the calender and &quot;my games&quot; or google Ads.Your main content display area should have a flexible width, giving you more display area on 1024px resolution instead of just larger gutters.Your &quot;hangers on&quot; like the Google Ads and the Calendar application should be floating elements off to one side (preferably the right side). Once the content passes those elements vertically you should have that horizontal real-estate back, sort of like a floating image inside a print piece - the content just flows around it.In short, less Penny Arcade and Live Journal, more Slashdot or PHPBBS.- Marty Lund</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mlund, post: 4117349, member: 50304"] Right now, the Navigation is brutal. The Search section is poorly executed and there is really no logical manual way to navigate between topics and content. You need to form and enforce a topical hierarchy so users can browse your content by topic. Also, separate your Personal Utilities from your Site Navigation. All the custom crap I can do on my profile and homepage and whatever shouldn't be cluttering my main navigation like it is right now. Think something more like PHP Bulletin board systems in that regard and less like LiveJournal. Your content display area is poorly executed. Right now you lose way too much reading room to gutters caused by centering it on 800px wide resolution and then eating the gutters caused by seldom-used utilities like the calender and "my games" or google Ads. Your main content display area should have a flexible width, giving you more display area on 1024px resolution instead of just larger gutters. Your "hangers on" like the Google Ads and the Calendar application should be floating elements off to one side (preferably the right side). Once the content passes those elements vertically you should have that horizontal real-estate back, sort of like a floating image inside a print piece - the content just flows around it. In short, less Penny Arcade and Live Journal, more Slashdot or PHPBBS. - Marty Lund [/QUOTE]

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