Forum:Redesigning the main page

For quite a while, I've noticed that the main page looks pretty bland. I've said so in the past and I'll say it again: "it is far too bland; with a lot of whitespace and to be frank, horrible at places." I still stand firmly on the point that it needs to be redone to be made more visually appealing.

If you frequent Special:Recentchanges, chances are you might have already noticed that I've been frequently editing my sandbox. As you can see, it looks horrible in its current condition. That's because all styling is handled by the css that's within the "Beautify" collapsible table. Here's a screengrab of what it's supposed to look like. If you find the background distracting or the resolution too low, you can copy-paste everything under the table (or more conveniently, this) to your wikia.css, clear your cache then have a look. What I propose is that we use the [ current design in my sandbox] for the main page.

I've used character portraits for the headers, so it's mostly the original cast, since aa5/dgs characters don't have proper portraits for it. If someone could arrange for their portraits too, they can be included as well. I've also limited the number of items in the "The Daily Express" section to 10, since that section takes up a lot of the right side. We could also add another section to the right side, now that we have some space left over there. Another solution would be to move "Featured article" and "Flavor poll" to the right side, and add a "Characters" section to the left one. Also, if we have enough character portraits, we can also randomize the background for headers.

Please leave your thoughts, concerns, suggestions below. --slyst