New Poll - why do you visit VGChartz?

[SamuelRSmith]

Personally, I don't think that the front page needs a "Popular News Stories" and "Latest News Stories", I just think it needs a "latest news" in place of where "Popular News Stories" is currently located.

The space where "latest news" is currently held could be used to hold the Worldwide Top 10 and the Weekly Hardware Numbers. This will give you space to shift the Total Worldwide Flash widget to the right.

The reason why I would do this would be to give more space to that news widget thing showing the biggest stories. Making it bigger would catch the eye. The box should be used for more than news stories, though. Clicking it should bring you to uploaded videos, news stories, game reviews, etc, to pull people to more areas of the site.

It would also reduce the amount of "clutter" on the front page.

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As for why I come to VGC, I come for the community - I used to come for the numbers, but being a Sony fan, I've grown somewhat distanced from that section (), now I stay around for the forums. Though, it's mainly the Off-Topic I partake in, now... the gaming chat just seems to be the same-old, same-old... but that's more the industries fault than VGC's.

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If you're really looking into expanding the feature set of VGChartz, and diversifying the content massively, may I recommend simply turning the front page into a portal that spans off to the other main parts of the site - this could allow for a proper dedicated space for each area, and less clutter on the front page.

Sort of like how the BBC website functions. You have a little bit of the latest of what's going on in each section, but you have to properly go into the section to view all the content. The size of the "advertising-content" box on the top-right of the Beeb's homepage was the kind of thing I was alluding to at the start of the post.

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Anyway, sorry if this post was rambling somewhat, my brain's frazzled atm (I'm jumping into C# and I don't like the way it's all class dependent).