As long as it's optional, I'd hate to be stuck on a page and 'forced' to wait for movies/players etc to load.

If I wanted music, I'd load Nero. ... besides, the idea was to 'speed up', not slow it down even more.

I was being serious, starkers....I don't know if you've taken the trouble to look and see what I'm referring to...but I wish you would.

Take a look at Yahoo.com, News.google.com.

You can choose the order various different blocks such as 'sports','sci-tech', 'entertainment' local', international' news etc. appear in and how much appears.

I wasn't kidding. I would like to hear from others if they would like the option to choose how the site appears to them and in which order.

Google News and all the other sites that have a "My xyz" option are very fast.

I would like a media section where we can post videos and things of that sort, I guess a visual extension of the help area.

I've seen something like that, we had about 5 we could choose from.

yeah.. music.. not good.... more video content in specific areas might be nice

Personally though I'd like to see a fully working core site before any extra's or new ideas were considered.

Yeah ID, a seperate section with movies would be good, like tutorial video's, now I like that idea

I think that would be a good thing. I was referring to a set of "Modules" one could build his personalized WC Homepage out of.

You could choose what is of interest to you, and in what order ... like reading a newspaper....only you'd determine the order of the reading without having to to go back and forth 'folding' the paper and 'turning pages'.

You should...I proposed that first in another post by Brad ...on this same topic.  I called it "Sort of a Video Professor" about skinning and a way to revitalize the WinWikipedia.

I.D. is talking about a "Current Events" type of thing, I believe.

I never saw it.

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So was I.  However, the point I was making is that funtionality will take precedence over site skinning and theming. OK, so the wallpaper and curtains was a bit flippant, but that's just me.

As I understand it, HTML5 embeds such things into the page itself, thus doing away with the need for media players and the like to slow things down.  Furthermore, this is Web2 we're talking about here, which is crisper, cleaner and much faster at presenting content, so page renders shouldn't be such and issue.

I too will load my media player to listen to music when I want, but the idea of having embedded music, video and announcements is to give users a richer, more rewarding WC experience.  For example, spoken announcements on upcoming new features to programs and WC would have a more personal feel that's more explanatory... and tutorials would give a more hands-on approach than just the written word.  Music would be just an added extra that may give users something they've not heard before... or something happening in the background if they forget to load Nero, WMP or whatever. And if it's user activated rather than on by default, everybody can be happy.

I believe you missed what I meant altogether, mate.

There wouldn't be any skinning at all of the site. Therefore speed would not be affected at all.

The functionality of the site (for the individual...and visitors would not be able to arrange modules, only subscribers) would be enhanced this way.

Sorry if my meaning was unclear from my writing.

Actually, I believe that going back and forth about this is pointless as it was probably decided before the first post about this topic was made.

Please note reply #30.

Cool starkers

the screenshot looks nice., but there are two things that i would wish to see a big change:

1. Personal Home Page: It needs more options to customize it

2. A new Winki: You know.., i've seen some cool 3d vertions of winki by D. Arnaez that makes me think that winki needs a moke-up! a new style....

more or less along the thoughts I had for the Personal pages,  Posted here Post.

What snow And I were talking about in this thread, was the Old WC themes we used to be able to use here on WC. You could choose the way WC looked Colors,buttons etc, from a list of predetermined Themes in a drop down menu. While it may be considered eye candy to some,  a darker theme for me would add funtionality, as it wouldnt hurt the peepers so much.

Jafo mumbles something incomprehensible about functioning admin tools.....

I hope it won't be an unlinkable blob of site.

Flash or not, I hate sites that don't allow users to link to pages within site...

Tailsgirl likes talking like this, HG showed me hehe

....and yes, fix those Admin tools, so Jafo can fix my dang guestbook

That'd be awesome, but I'd have to think that videos would take up more resources on this site, unless it's moderated and restricted to tutorial, news, etc. There are plenty of video hosting sites that can be used to upload vid-tuts and then you can embed them in a post here.

As for the new direction of the site, you had me at "faster."

sViz, I was thinking that the Vids could be put elsewhere...like on the Wiki...what I.D. was referring to was more along the lines of "news" and I think the more the better. The Wiki vids could be "linked" to the Wiki, not necessarily "in it"...not sure I'm explaining it well. My knowledge is in medicine, not web design...I was only suggesting what I'd seen elsewhere.