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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 270772" data-attributes="member: 1264">I'd have to second a lot of what Eric said. Most of the points he mentioned he loved about maintaining the old site are precisely the things I came to the site for!"Putting the pieces together. Detective work. Anonymous scoops." This, I think, is the CORE of the news page. In Eric's time, the front page would be full of scoops. Today, I counted only 5 scoopers on the entire page. Make sure you acknowledge every single scooper that sends you something useful, there's no better way to nurture that community feeling!On the other hand I would devote a lot less space to publisher info, new releases etc. You could integrate "New at WotC" as a single bulletin under "d20 System News". For example, today you would have:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New at <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/main.asp?x=dnd/welcome" target="_blank">WotC</a>: <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/re/re20020722a" target="_blank">Random Encounters</a>: "Shopping, darling ..."; <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/iw/iw20020721a" target="_blank">In the Works</a>: D20 Modern; <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20020801x" target="_blank">Olidammara's Dice web utlity</a>.</li> </ul>Overall, I would prefer the front page to be much less focused on WotC. They're just one of many d20 publishers nowadays. So get rid of that entire tight hand column, and give the main center col;umn a little more "air" to breathe. (By the way, that yellow size="-2" text you used for the redisign discussion on the fron page is almost impossible to read!)For new and upcoming releases, you could just have a single bullet with product names and dates (if that!)"Rules Illustrated Pieces" These were GREAT. The AoO page is a classic, and could probably be updated a little. A couple of examples along the lines of Gamestoppers (but with less errors <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) could come in handy as well.Overall, I'd like to see more gossip and utilities, and less corporate...</blockquote>

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