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 Somebody just grab Geyser's layout script, and figure out a way to put in the bottom table all the topics as Iriscen said. Also, Iritscen you may think of a better welcome message for the page header. The note about the search function is annoyingly obvious, just delete it. And remove that bloody drawing of mine! Bring back Lorraine's art or just leave no pictures, it will look fine as well.
 ::[[User:Guido|guido]] 13.15, 6 February 2008 (CET)
-::What do you mean by the "bottom table"?  I'm curious.  "A better welcome message"... yeah, I ripped that thing off wholesale from Wikipedia, I'm not defending it. I'll see if I can think of something better. "The note about the search function"... yeah, it's a little patronizing, I thought the same thing. "Remove that bloody drawing of mine"... I really like it, but perhaps a piece of "canon" art is called for on the Main Page. I'll browse through our Images gallery for something of Lorraine's. --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 15:21, 6 February 2008 (CET)
+:What do you mean by the "bottom table"?  I'm curious.
+:"A better welcome message"... yeah, I ripped that thing off wholesale from Wikipedia, I'm not defending it. I'll see if I can think of something better.
+:"The note about the search function"... yeah, it's a little patronizing, I thought the same thing.
+:"Remove that bloody drawing of mine"... I really like it, but perhaps a piece of "canon" art is called for on the Main Page. I'll browse through our Images gallery for something of Lorraine's.
+::[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 15:21, 6 February 2008 (CET)
+:Guido and ssg both have really weird ways to refer to those three lists: "bottom table", "last row"... for sake's sake, it's the actual table, guys!
+:Welcome messages are hard to get right, which is why no one seems willing to take the responsibility of actually sitting down and writing them. ^_^
+:I know for a fact that many people are unaware/oblivious of the direct-hit a.k.a. "Go" feature. I explained that in some more detail. Enjoy.
+:Guido, your drawing is staying. It's up to you to remove or replace it, but as far as I'm concerned I'd only take the thumb-frame away.
+:Apart from being just plain nice, it makes us stand apart from all those who don't know better than to recycle Lorraine's art forever.
+:BTW, the opportunity to liven up the wiki with contextual illustrations still holds. Help yourself to the image gallery, everybody.
+::[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 18:18, 6 February 2008 (CET)
+:About the comments in brackets. When they are humorous rather than informative, and don't contain hyperlinks, we can replace them with hoverboxes, like this: [[Iron Demon|<span title="IT'S... ALIIIVE!!!">Iron Demon</span>]]
+:There are plenty of other ways to improve "my" table, but I woundn't cram all of Iritscen's "site map" into it because: 1) it will never encompass the variety of the wiki's content; 2) in the attempt to do so, it will grow larger and larger, so that "even a lazy person like [Guido] is able to spot everything that's worth of interest at a first glance" will no longer be true.
+::[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 18:18, 6 February 2008 (CET)
 ==On The New Main Page==
 Well, this is it. We've just witnessed a mental breakdown. Someone call the men in white coats for geyser. --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 17:43, 6 February 2008 (CET)