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WakingJohn:
Well I think the newspaper in cols has more to do with making a comprimise between words per line ( around 7+-2 optimal.  also considering the size being under that of a width of a USD. ) and content space.

Bet yes, way too many.  imo they should be cut down to at most 6 and at least 4.  Things could be further devided from there if you wish, though I dont see it as necessary particularly.

For example:
"New to Mame?" "Buildin' That Bad Boy" "Talk About It!" "Eye Candy" "Sweet Cabs"
for a disgustingly casual theme or
"The Basics" "Advanced Construction" "Talk About It!""Design" "Examples"
for a more formal, yet still a little casual theme.

Basics:  place for n00bs to find out .. well the basics.  
Advanced Construction: Electronics, Cabinet Building, Monitors, Layout, etc in the form of some sort of encyclopedia or searchable content by engine or index.
"Talk About It!" : Forums, Chat, Contact info, etc.  Links to other resources to talk about arcades - newsgroups for example.  This is where any 'buy sell' stuff now as html content should be placed
Design: Artwork for sides in a searchable gallery
Examples: Projects again, searchable by different options.

I'm actually big on top bars for something like this.  it helps seperate mentally "Content" from "Navigation" imho and I believe it flows nicer.  Left Sidebars make me think of ugly 90s websites (no offense meant).

Goz:
 The example I listed was a quick and dirty throw together of the current links. I agree there would be far too many tabs, but again this is because of the way things are currently organized on this site. (it was a copy of the side bar links from the main site).

 There would need to be a tree of sorts or nested categories for organization purposes of the available topics to reduce the clutter. I guess my point is that I I just wanted to show what a tabbed interface could look like and that it could be done very quickly with minimal code involved.

I had some free time at work (about 10 mins) and wanted to see if features like displaying the forum and chat room within an Iframe would work properly and they do for both IE and Mozilla.

-Goz

Matt, GoC:
I too like the idea of project hosting for a nominal fee, although that's not the scope of this particular thread...

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