1/ The revolving globe is cute but painfully slow to load if you click for the bigger view. Not sure about it because frankly I tend to go somewhere else if a page doesn't load fast. My preference if we were going to have that would be to not load it on the front page but to link it off a memberlist.
Yeah I had thought after I posted that globe will probably slow things down, best to avoid it. It is purdy though, pops up the global location of everyone who visits the site.
2/ Ok cool. We can do recent topics easily enough. We already have recent posts in the side panel. That is no drama. We could probably also rig up a random post from the "Quotes wot are kewl enough fer me siggy innit" thread.
cool and cool!
3/ Don't do Twitter myself but if we can sneak it in and some people like the feeds then yeah, why not? The events one is easy. Our software already allows that a a default feature. I just haven't enabled it because there's usually bugger all on our calendar and the default display of events is kinda blurgh. I can fix that though.
Yeah, maybe we can have a poll to see how many if any members would share their twitter feeds (in case it's under their own real name or wotnot).
Yay for the date thing.
4/ I think I'd prefer the icons in a side column along with some other useful links, or sumpin.
Yeah, that'd work. It'd be nice if maybe the icons were a bit smaller, what do you think? Like instead of the current 150x36, maybe under 100px width? Would look cleaner. But I don't know if it'd be too much of a PITA to get new icons from the sites or recreate these. I could help with the graphics resizing/redoing.