User:Guy Macon/Simple Main Page


Note: This proposed main page replacement is intended to not include all 23 links in the sidebar at the left side of your screen, but we may decide to keep a few by adding them to the main section.

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...Or we could do something along the lines of [ http://www.arngren.net/ ] or possibly [ http://heaven.internetarchaeology.org/heaven.html#bottom] (note: you have to use the up and down arrows to see it all -- no newfangled "scroll bars" here!). It's clearly what a lot of people want our main page to look like... :( --Guy Macon (talk) 18:25, 27 June 2016 (UTC)