You know, I must say I'm starting to come around on this left menu thing. I don't know if it's because it has David's Bugler pic now, or if it's just a matter of time and getting used to it, but it's starting to look much more natural to me. When I compare this to other websites I visit a lot, espn, cnn, etc, the left menu idea and having a common look accross all pages of a site are fairly common. Heck, for that matter, we do it on PBW, and take up a lot more space then this does.
If we must have the left menu though, let's go all out and put more nav buttons on it. If there were more nav buttons I think that peoples first impression of it wouldn't be that it's just more "ad" space. What about all the nav buttons from the left menu on the home page? Buttons to take me to the various game pages? How about buttons to take me to different game forums within the bulliten board here? If I could navigate the entire Shrapnel site from the left menu without having to go back to the home page at all that would be fairly useful, and quite cool actually. And you could still have your press releases in the left column under the links like they are now, they'd just be a bit farther down because there would be more links.
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NullAshton said:
Idea... Why don't these headlines be a scroller across the top of the screen?
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Yeah, that's been mentioned a couple of times in this thread already.