Yeah, I'm back again to say it official, other than getting used to the new design, it is way better than the old one. For the most part you can get to where you want to go on one click, but other times it will be 2 because WinCustomize has more content; For example, the forums. It not has about 4 different forums (no default one) so you have to click again to go to the default on IF the thread you want to see is no the top ten threads.
The main page is perfect (its just missing textbanner.net community ads *hint hint*). Plus I do think the casual user will get the idea. The side menu is long, of course, because of the amount of content so maybe it would be better if it was collapsible or something? No clicking on a button and the whole page reloads; it should just expand. Or maybe a menu with anchor links to the different sub-menus below. Start with 'Recent Forum Activity' as the first anchor and work your way down.
Gallery pages are fine:
http://www2.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx?LibID=32
3 columns is the only way to go here.
The OVERALL gallery:
http://www2.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx
It works too. If you put the textbanner.net community ads on top of the middle column that would work fine.
Other tabs like newest, popular, software, and articles:
http://www2.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx
are excellent!!! (maybe a little space between 'gallery' and 'newest' [like it is between 'home' and 'gallery'] and a small space between 'sites' and 'stores')
Oh and on the home pages, we should have our own stores (subscribers should anyway) so we can sell Object Desktop software and stuff we made too... like Café Press except for skins.
