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Hi,
We received some fantastic feedback on iteration 6 last week, but we have a few more iterations to go, so your thoughts and comments are more important to the process now than ever before.
You will notice with iteration 7 that we have made some quite drastic changes over the last week ... changes that we feel better serve existing Drupal users AND people new to Drupal. Leisa will be posting shortly (here it is) with our thinking on some of these proposed changes.
As you look at the prototype and feedback your thoughts and ideas in this thread. The link to the latest iteration is below:
http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration7
Key points on this iteration:

1. Changes to Information architecture, which can be summarised as (extracted from Leisa's upcoming post):
   • placing a much greater emphasis on the search behaviour from the homepage (and throughout the site), and significantly simplifying the 'header' navigation.
   • A behaviour which we have observed since the very early days on this project has the use of search
   • inclusion of the 'big ass footer'
2. We've yet to incorporate advertising in general (although we've included a few)
3. Redesigned 'Getting Started' page
4. Redesigned homepage and masthead. Taking on board community feedback, revised IA, and testing results.

There are some minor inconsistencies with style - these will be ironed out in coming iterations. Over the coming weeks, we'll also be addressing some of the finer details of the visual design.
We have also posted a request for specific feedback on the About section (now called 'Choosing Drupal'). If you have any feedback on this particular page such as the purpose you think it serves, content to be included and anything else, please comment on this thread:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/16456
Thanks again.
Mark
(www.markboultondesign.com)
Drupal.org redesign plan for the Drupal Association