[Wikipedia-l] Demo front page

[Neil Harris]

elian wrote:

>Hi Magnus,
>
>Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at epost.de> writes:
>
>  
>
>>I merged my little script with the fine layout from the other
>>page. Please try again
>>    http://mitglied.lycos.de/manske/wiki/test.php    (Sorry for the
>>banner, I can't help it)
>>    
>>
>
>I would suggest to emphasize the language wikipedia preferred by the
>browser simply by coloring the link in a nice, dark red instead of the
>green of the other ones, no table border. Maybe add also an <hr>-tag
>between introduction and language section.
>
>Meanwhile I updated http://www.djini.de/Uploads/wikipedia/wikipedia2.html
>(stylesheet also updated) to show the "working"-sentences in italic, I
>think this is better. 
>
>greetings,
>elian
>
>  
>
Elian,

That's a ''really'' nice design for the multi-lingual-portal page. 
However, I suggest that page should not be the front page 
http://www.wikipedia.org/, which I think should be consist of

* a thin welcome banner with links pointing to the multi-lingual-portal 
page (eg http://www.wikipedia.org/index1.html) and the multi-lingual 
Wikipedia foundation page.
* a drop-down language-selection menu
* a search bar
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:
* the front page content of the localised Wikipedia of the user's or 
browser's choice, as per my previous comments

-- Neil