User blog:GangBunTu/Changing Main Page

I've altered main page into minimalist view, stripping out big images. It should be easier for people with limited bandwidth. Granted, simple text links are not attactive enough to incite curiosity (to click). I'm planning to create something similar to K-On Wikia, featuring some characters and animated gifs to access the categories.

The lack of resources is one thing, but the lack of exposure makes it (much) worse. After all no matter how good your idea is, if you can't sell it you can't make it happen. If we can make this wikia more attractive, we should be able to pull people in (to enrich this wikia).

Any idea &/ criticism is welcomed.

-- edit 18 Jan 2014 --

For a while I've been thinking that Featured Video section is ugly but not sure how to improve it. I'm currently gravitating towards boxing it inside a table with single row and 2 columns: 1 for the video, another for a cloud of tags. If you think "what's the big deal?" then please consider form-factor: We shouldn't design something that is best fit for ourselves -- ignoring the rest of the world.
 * There are lots of different form factor for pc monitor & laptop screen.
 * Nowadays people use either tablet or smartphone.

In smaller screen there may be no space for the cloud.