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Comment by Ceri Shaw on July 1, 2012 at 12:06am

The more eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that we have dropped the javascript rotating ad display from the front page. This should increase page load times and reduce the clutter on the home page somewhat. Instead we will be featuring up to 14 ads in the Featured box which will be rotated at frequent intervals. At the moment we have 7 or 8 spots available in this display area. Any takers? Email americymru@gmail.com for more details

Comment by Matthew D. Reese on June 27, 2012 at 9:32am

looks good to me

Comment by Ceri Shaw on June 22, 2012 at 6:07pm

Gwych :)

Comment by Ceri Shaw on June 22, 2012 at 4:47pm

Content=anything you post ( blog, discussion, photo, video etc )

Discussion=anything posted in the forum which is intended as a basis for further comments

Blogpost= a rather more formal communication/article on which you may or may not allow comments

Comment by Ceri Shaw on June 22, 2012 at 11:23am

Diolch Madoc....all for people visiting their homepages

Comment by Ceri Shaw on June 22, 2012 at 11:21am

Diolch for your comments gentlemen I will try and do as you suggest ( Peter, SJ ) but that will involve 'getting down and dirty' with the Language Editor. Not sure how much html I can get away with there. Highlighting , centering may or may not prove possible. Will report back.

Leaderboard on front page will be rotated daily and randomly. If you want to see all boards go  to  http://americymru.net/leaderboards  and click on View All at the bottom of the individual boards for a full display.

Hoping to replace the WCE and Buy Tickets link with a graphic soon.

Comment by Peter Lewis on June 22, 2012 at 6:38am

Ceri, right now the words Featured and Sponsers etc are flush left in a type size not much bigger than what follows.  These are the headers I mentioned.  If they were more prominent the secions themselves would be distinguished from each other and easier to "see".  Perhaps centering hte headers and making them larger?  Can color be introduced? Blue perhaps? something to make them stand out more.

Comment by Madoc Roberts on June 22, 2012 at 1:34am

Hi Ceri

you are going to hate this but on first glance I didn't notice the difference. This probably says more about me than the new layout. The colours were the same and the buttons looked the same but it wasn't until I checked out your explanation that I could see it. That is how thick I am! Now that I've noticed it I like it although I must say that I tend to go to my home page first and then have a look around from there. That is probably a Facebook habit.

regards

Madoc

Comment by Ceri Shaw on June 21, 2012 at 9:07pm

Diolch Peter....implemented the 'sponsors' idea. Not quite sure I follow - "Is it possible to make something like that permanent, spread across the full width of the column?" Can you expand on this a little?

Comment by Peter Lewis on June 21, 2012 at 9:00pm

Ceri I like the idea of what you're trying to do.  Distinct spots for distinct types of info makes for easy navigation, less confusion, greater chance that someone will actually click though. One thing that helps is very clear cut headers for each section, signage as it were. The yellow bands in the example above are, I imagine, just there for us to understand your intent.  Is it possible to make something like that permanent, spread across the full width of the column? If so that would help to distinguish each section from the others. As well the banner ad section between Featured and Current might do with a similar header, one that says Sponsors perhaps or something like that, so that advertising is clearly marked off from editorial.   On the whole I like that direction!