Forum:Revamping the front page

Lets face it, the front page is hideous. I'd venture that it's put a few people off browsing or editing the site, or least given them a bad impression of it, they might not realise the great articles they would find if they have a look around. I've been saying for a while I'm going to revamp the main page, but I want to discuss ideas first as it's such a major issue. Here are my ideas: I would appreciate hearing what everybody else thinks. David 22:03, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The link to the main sections should be changed, so that the Coronation Street characters link goes to the category and not the article itself, at least not until that article has been worked on a bit. The actors link currently goes to the list of current characters, when I think it would be better if it linked to the category. The episodes link and article is good though.
 * There should be some kind of mention of the spin-offs, even though they are very much a minority interest compared to Coronation Street itself.
 * Rather than that line of links under the welcome message, perhaps there should be a clearer introduction to new users, guiding them to the right places. For all we know they've never edited Wikia before.
 * As has been suggested elsewhere, a brief introduction to the show.
 * Along with the Featured Article, some other Wikis have boxes containing Quotes of the Day and little known facts in them. What are people's opinion on this? They might seem pointless, or tiresome to keep updated, but we could probably come up with loads at once and change them using templates.
 * Following on from my last point, using more templates on the page for ease of editing.
 * A better overall look - easy in theory but hard to put into practice!