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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kershek" data-source="post: 271128" data-attributes="member: 2900">Personally, I'm very glad that he posts all the updates to WotC's site so I don't have to go visit them.  Heck, I'd forget anyway.  I visit the things that interest me and ignore the rest.For Morrus:As far as the site redesign, I believe ENWorld is comprised of three separate main entities:Community (forums, chat, reviews, etc.)News & Resources (dailies, conversions, archive, etc.)Hosted sites (including shopping)The way you currently run it, news gets top billing and everything else gets thrown into the sidebars and deeper into the site (exception: community and other items that are sprinkled into the news).  By rights, you could run three separate web sites for the above and still have more content then many other places out there.  I agree with you that the site needs a redesign for better access to all the crunchy bits it has to offer.Notice I put the reviews in with the community.  I think this is important, since there's a reviewing community that is separated from the rest of the site and they probably shouldn't be.  Combining the reviews forum with the main forum would be a good move.Anyways, your main home page could be a hub for all three areas, but separated evenly and in such a way that the viewer feels they are skimming the top of three very large areas.  Make sure that the newest and most important info is at the top hub site to still make it enticing to visit instead of directly bookmarking things in your second level.  Separate the areas on the home page as you like, but do it in a way that's easiest for you to maintain and gives the viewer an uncomplicated screen that is at most two or three screenfulls. For instance, a third of the home page would be designated "News & Resources," where the most recent stories (only 1 day old) reside, yet it has a link at the top of its section pointing to the main "News & Resources" page with all the non-time-critical goodies.  From there, you can get at all the info needed to keep the 3-levels-deep paradigm.Another third of the home page, the Communities section, could be a listing of the most recent forum posts and reviews.  Clicking on the link at the top of its section would bring you to the normal forums top folder integrated with the reviews site.The third section of the home page would list brief updates to your hosted sites and shopping specials.  Clicking the link on the top of its section would give an index and description of all hosted sites and the shopping area.The important part would be to have all three sections at least partially visible without scrolling down.If this sounds like more work than you do currently, keep thinking about automation.  You could find a way to make your front page a reference of information on your 3 main pages inside so it's rather automatic.  First of all, the communities page should be auto-updating so you don't touch it at all.  The news items could be going into the news page which is referenced to it's one-third section on the enworld.org page.  The same could be done for the hosted sites section.Hopefully, you like at least a couple of ideas from this thought.  My original intention was only to reply to Eric's post and suddenly I had this idea I wanted to share <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I haven't read past Eric's post, which at this time is only half-way through all the posts, so I apologize if my comments are outdated.I would love to hear opinions, Morrus.</blockquote>

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