Personally, I don't like the structure of the site. It's completely designed around a forum and isn't very user friendly in my opinion. A forum is not a landmark to base a design of a website around, at least on a visual and interactive level.
Take for instance, Curse. When you go to the "addons" section of the website you're confronted with this.
http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php
Not only does it have a large group of catagories detailing what type of mods they contain, but there is 61 links around the page. Each link advertising individual addons ranging from the most popular to the most recently commented on. This even helps the 'lesser known' mods get some visitors because it was in the "Latest versions" or "New addons" list for half an hour or so. Not only that, but it exposes visitors to nifty mods that otherwise they wouldn't have considered looking for.
One click gives me access to all that.
With WoW Interface, you click on "downloads", and you get this.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads
Three choices, I click on "User Interfaces."
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads?cid=13
Another three choices, I click on "Stand-Alone Add-ons."
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads?cid=23
And I'm finally at some place that looks like where I want to go, from here I can go through the individual catagories and look for mods I want. There isn't even a search I can use to look for mods. The only lists available are in seperate sections, "New Interfaces" on the home page and "Featured Artists" in one of the sections I went over earlier.
All of these sections and sub-sections could be grouped onto a single page. The way it's currently setup reminds me of one of those telephone service menus, where you have to go through several options before you get to where you want to be.
But now that you've mentioned that there's a new site design in the works during the time it's taken me to write this, have the browser crash and eventually re-write this
, I guess none of this is even valid anymore.
