• One place to go, and you get a glimpse of anything and everything going on across the whole site. Ease of navigation the ultimate end due to fewer clicks, and less chance of missing news from the older games that you inevitably wind up checking less often due to fewer updates.
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• Easier for Bolty, since he can concentrate on one site design (layout, colors, graphics) instead of many different ones, one for each game.
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• A greater chance that when you come to the front page, something new to read will be waiting for you due to all games combining their coverage. Avoids the problem that inevitably arises that when a game gets old, its section becomes pretty stagnant. Let's face it, is there really anything new in the Diablo 1 universe? Do we get to a point where we close down a game section? Lemming's done an awesome job on the Diablo content, but there's not much else to go on - so you get a relatively "dead" part of the site as a result.<>
  [st]2) The current system - have a news page for each game. Advantages:
  • If you only come here for one game, you're not bothered by news and content from any of the other games. Just go to your section and bookmark that.
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  • More fun for section admins, since that area becomes their "turf" and they don't have to share it with anyone else. Each section's quality and interest level will live and die by the section admin's level of devotion to providing content, along with the "freshness" of the game covered.
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  • A section can develop a thriving community, as the Diablo and Diablo II sections did, all on its own without feeling diluted by other communities. As time goes on, older communities will have their forums condensed down to just one as the Diablo section has (and Diablo II section will, eventually).<>
    [st]So what it comes down to is - do you tend to click around and see if there's anything new for each section (imagine if the LL covered 5 or 6 games, would you do that?), or do you just stick to one section and ignore the others, preferring it to be isolated?
    
    Your input is valued! Let me know what you think.
    
    -Bolty

Occhidiangela,Aug 17 2004, 06:46 AM Wrote:Make the front page into 4 quadrants.&nbsp; Each quadrant is the front page excerpted from the 3 front pages, one layer in, and the fourth you reserve for any number of emerging things or funny pictures.

WarLocke,Aug 27 2004, 04:50 PM Wrote:I vote for a single unified news page as well.&nbsp; Maybe you could color code the headlines (or use distinctive border graphics) to distinguish between games.&nbsp; But in any case, I think a single page would be more convenient for more people than 2, 3, 4, or more game-specific pages.

EDIT:&nbsp; I should probably start reading entire threads before replying.&nbsp; Oh well, I'm used to arriving to parties late.&nbsp; :blink: