User blog:Jkl9817/A humble idea from a humble semi-newbie

I recently checked the frontpage's history. Apparently, it has had the same look ever since it was created (except for a few box color changes here and there). It came to my mind that perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea to change its looks a little. I mean, not polluting it with gadgets, but, you know, linking to recently started stories and having a corner for news. We could do it without making the frontpage look like the second Glee Wiki or anything like that; just making it a bit more informative and a bit less... cheesy. IPs and new users don't have access to information like recently started stories and news that easily because the only place where they're actually avaliable is on the Community corner. Besides, having five colored boxes isn't quite what I'd call good-looking when it comes to a huge wiki like that (over 5000 articles!)'s frontpage. And they're about two years old already. In a major wiki, this would mean at least three or four frontpage reforms.

So, my suggestion is that someone should change the front page. Not a huge makeover, even because the frontpage is neither as important nor as accessed by users as the Recent Activity page. Only a little bit, so that more information can be accessed by users who just got here.

I spent a little time yesterday (YES, I was this bored) creating a new frontpage design. Not that I thought anyone would pay attention to it; I made it just for fun (I know my ways to have fun are kinda weird, but still). It could be seen on my sandbox, but I thought a whole new wiki with that design as the frontpage would provide more of a preview. So I created a sandbox wiki and changed its look to make it look like TDIFF. Then I added the code to the frontpage, and here's the result:

http://jklssandbox.wikia.com/wiki/Jkl%27s_Sandbox_Wiki

I know the Featured Image is really small, but that was the best way I found to fit it in. It's the only flaw in the whole page, IMO. So, please take a look at it (or not, if you are already annoyed at me by this point) and opine. It's just an idea.