Poll: Keep Navigation Page?

What should be done with the new home page for the 2015 season?

Poll ended at Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:34 am

Keep it as is
8
44%
Keep it, but make a few changes to utilize it more (explain below)
8
44%
Keep a home page, but make it significantly different than this one (explain below)
0
No votes
Go back to having the board index as the home page
2
11%
 
Total votes: 18

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Poll: Keep Navigation Page?

Post by zyzzyva980 »

For the latter part of this season, we added a new navigation page (the home page) to the site in an attempt to boost traffic to other parts of the site. As we prepare for rollover in a few weeks, we want to know what you thought of the new home page and what you'd like us to do with it.
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Post by fozendog »

I really like the Home page because it allows the website to have a nice clean intro to anyone coming on, but I would just clean up (if possible) the bottom part where it says "Recent Posts" and "Recent Wiki Edits". They kind of run over each other and it just seems like extra text at the bottom. I'm not sure if it's even possible, but just a suggestion! :)
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Post by Unome »

I would just like to say, when shown as a tab, the home page is missing the image that the forums and wiki have on the tab.
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I can't help but feel like the home page doesn't have much use for someone that is already into the site. I'm not sure about everyone else but I have the forums favorited to my bookmarks and use the directory at the top to manage my way around. Maybe things that can assist users like notifications, rules clarifications, events coming up?
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A Person wrote:I can't help but feel like the home page doesn't have much use for someone that is already into the site. I'm not sure about everyone else but I have the forums favorited to my bookmarks and use the directory at the top to manage my way around. Maybe things that can assist users like notifications, rules clarifications, events coming up?
A bit more stuff on the homepage would be nice.
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