Hey Jack, ya I'd love to help you with the homepage. The trick with the homepage is to have enough doors/ entry ways into the sites contents but to keep it uncluttered. A website homepage can basically be divided up into 6 main sections: masthead, footer, body, right side and left side. I've listed below what content should probably be put in each section.

Masthead: navigation menu, graphics, user logon fields

Body: new forum posts, new blog posts, news items, updates from Jack ( to be turned on as needed ), chat box, pod casts.

Left and Right side bars: advertisements for your products, user testimonials, gold nugget stories, complimentary resources, time to next chat, featured users.

Footer: contact info, bookmarks

That's just a simple over view but it's probably a start. I'd be interested to hear what information people would like to see foregrounded as well. I'll try to take some time in the next couple of days and sketch out a basic template of where the content could go. Can you pm me with your fax info Jack?

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