WinCustomize Homepage concepts
Would like your input
Monday, March 12, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
As some of you know, the main goal of WC2K7 was to rebuild the backend of the site to be more robust and much faster. The actual look of the site was basically the existing site with a new skin.
So the next step is to start comign up with how we would like the pages to work. We would like to get your input on some of this.
Below is a diagram of the home page:
So the top would continue to have the logo and the button bar (exept forums changed to community but we'll get more to that later).
But rather than giant news items spread out on the site, the news items would intead focus on displaying just the headling and a description with the user clicking on the link if they're interested. This would free up room to display more things.
Under that would be highlighted articles. We would probably merge posts and articles to be the same thing with user ratings causing them to float to the top (so questions for support woudl stick in the help area whereas someone writing about skinnign woudl likely float up).
Over on the right we would use the new space to display more things. The boxes represent thumbnails. How many woudl be displayed depends on the resolution the user is viewing the site with.
But youw oudl get a good run-down at a galnce of what's been going on on the site.
At the bottom, The Popular Galleries woudl be displayed like you see keywords on some sites. It woudl be based on the popularity of the given gallery rather than WinCustomize choosing (annoiting) which galleries are to be displayed.
The Gallery page (gallery.wincustomize.com) woudl instead become the place where users would browse through the galleries in detail which we'll get to in one of the next posts on this subject.
My feeling is that this is a cleaner, more effective way to view the home page than what we currently have.
Thoughts?
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Reply #22 Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:12 AM
Yes please....First & formost it is the skins I look for..I pass over the walls....until I check the skins out...then go back to look at walls...don't want to take away from their hard work either....so I really like Jafo's ideas
What about the Bootskin drownings?....13 uploaded in a row in the gallery...right now..
Fortunately Vstyler's Stargate WB had to be updated.. 
..becasue it had gotten drowned originally under those 13 bootskins.You are not far off at all..
Keep the just in to screenshots of WIP or upcoming skins & skins 
It's My Secret
Reply #23 Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:38 AM
Reply #24 Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:38 AM
Reply #25 Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:47 AM
It's My Secret
Reply #26 Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:53 AM
I'd love to see my ObjectBar RSS feeds displayed on the home page. Or be able to drag and drop the poll around to the top or bottom.
Or blend data from my personal pages (like the guestbook, or my skin stats into the home page.
Reply #27 Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:16 AM
Reply #28 Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:37 AM
I agree with that.
So I like a new layout and if it's possible not to cover a screenshot(thumbnails)with a tag(name,rating...) and place it under it instead-just an idea.
Also MySecret suggestions about forum structure and visibility is good.
Reply #29 Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:11 PM
Good idea!
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Reply #21 Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:39 AM
Looks like your trying to combine the Gallery Page with the homepage. Will this mean change for the Gallery page too? I kinda like it the way it is. Might be nice to have a column next to the Gallery sections that's shows the # of new skins added in the last 24 hours to that section. Sure would save some surfing time. Thanks for listening.