since W2S is growing more and more it also got more and more cluttered and this mess should be cleaned up !!! there are so many functions at the mainpage that - I think - are not used because they are lost in all those masses of frames ... OK heres what I would say .... :

1. the preferences box
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Your Info
Config
Comments
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lets pull all together - its useless !!! its wasting space - I mean how often do you cange your preferences ? every day ? not that the box should no longer exist but in different location .... where it makes sense
--> in you profil - reached by Your_Account button at the top - this is perfect to be stored there ...

2. the Languages box
again useless ... :hmm: why ?
because a) if you are a noob to this site will you first look all sidebar to find out if the site is multilingual or not ? NO!
will you as daily visitor switch it every day ? and if yes not by clicking the german news at to right ?
--> language selection should be ALWAYS on ANY site on the top of the page to be seen at first sight !!! and since we all understand what flags mean its totally enough to put the 2 flags
into the
Home · Forums · Readers News · Your Account · · Downloads · Links · Submit News
line or into the
Welcome Mertsch Your Daily Tech News Service... February 13 2004
line or into the very first line
Affiliates: TechReport | BetaResource | SavageNews | 3DXtreme | FreshNews | Overclockersclub
| TechConnect | Hardtecs4U | HardwareExtreme | NeoWin

3. the very first line should have word wrap to be dynamically cut or the affs should be arranged by those "|"
OK only small thingy not that important but its an improvement

4. very small change : just make the Awards box a bit smaller around 1 cm is wasted there ...

5. also very small change that I see right now ...
the newsboxes are alligned to the center between left and right frame with same space between both sides ... on firefox the left space is a bit bigger then right one ...
also the horizontal space between the boxes can be reduced to the space left or right
Done left and right side are equal

6. the Windows XP Internet Explorer 6 Post Service Pack 1 Updates Charts box
a) can't the "view chart" line be integrated into the pic next to it - we also do that on news and it would save 2cm
b)Both charts will be updated frequently. can be put into headline ... like
frequently updated Windows XP Internet Explorer 6 Post Service Pack 1 Updates Charts
and if not .... 1. SP1 is already out 2. pre is better then post 3. &
Windows XP & Internet Explorer 6 pre Service Pack 2 Updates Charts
Done by removing them - very positive effect in my eyes

now come to the REAL stuff

we are clicking a news ... with read more !!!

7. what is that powered by aladin lamp box ????

8. the user comment part is too much at the bottom!
this can be change by moving the Options box
those 2 options are accessable via mainpage !
its also fully enough to put the 2 icons into the headline again ... same as the language icons ... you won't search for those buttons if ya see them on first sight u may use them but if you do not you simple forget them

--> put em into the
Bios: Latest Bios and Drivers updates - February 12, 2004
=>Posted by: Newsfactory.
=>Thursday, February 12 @ 23:23:57 CET
line (to the right) - maybe to make things clear just put "print" and "send" next to it

9. the Article Rating box its also the wrong place ... while wasting space ...
I think it would be much more senseful to make a line with all those stars and maybe a "rate" button (which is not needed since you can add script that directly votes when clicking one)
that got 2 advantages - first the comment area flips up 2nd that newspart comes down since there is one more line with those stars - oh and third the function would be used way more frequently ... again what you don't see is simply forgotten

10. back on mainpage the rate of an article shouldbn't be that ugly number it should be # of the stars given else this feature can be fully removed ? who takes the time to look that number ?

UPDATE:
11. allow any character on mainpage news and comments like "|" next to "<" and ">"

comment apreciated

readed and will think about it.

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what would be W2S without our 2 Masters?

i´d like to say:
if degger is in time and if possible he can make the Mertsch-changes, maybe all or not and Degger may built a second W2S-site, but with another adress or something. On this Main-Site u will give a link to the new created site, with the all the same news of the original-site to see the difference and we gonna vote, wich site looks better,
everything only if possible

that is my suggestion

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Whoa, That stuff never bothered me before.

and now ?

NIKEMARINE wrote:
Whoa, That stuff never bothered me before.

me too

but if we,(mertsch), can make deggers´ baby better, why not?

Meh, I always thought it was fine before.

yeah before but now ... I haven't seen all those things, too it was just the commentpart that very much at the bottom ...
and while looking at that I found more and more things that CAN be changed ... its OK is they stay ... but I think it would be nice to change em

What s better, change comments on mainpage or put comments in forum?

both
for any news a post in forum (new section for sure)
and this thread is shown under the news as replacement of the current comment part