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 ** I'd move "MDN Community" to the bottom.
 ** I think it's deeply strange to have a heading called "Documentation" alongside "Tools for Developers" and "Technology Reference". It's all documentation, isn't it?
+Moar stuff, to take or leave, using this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools as an example, in the new redesign. Sorry if these are just because it's old content, but I figure it doesn't hurt to mention stuff:
+* there's a lot of vertical margin between header and breadcrumbs, breadcrumbs and title, title and content. Too much IMHO.
+* would it be possible to have the top-level topics (Projects,Tools,Learn,Demos) and search bar at the very top, alongside "wbamberg|sign out" and the Mozilla tab? Maybe they wouldn't fit. But it looks odd having them (especially the top-level topics) on the next row, and the top row looks kind of sparse.
+* there's a noticeable lag when you leave the search box before it contracts, during which the top-level topics aren't accessible. Might that get annoying?
+* I think the space just right of the article text, at the top, is too valuable for tags and attachments. I don't care about these things. Why not have a link in the footer "About this article" or something, where I can see this stuff if I need to?
+* the image is 800px, but the column is too narrow for it. I don't think I can realistically make the image smaller and have it still be usable, so the column needs to be wider.
+* personally, I'm not a big fan of the grey box at the top of the content, but I guess this is optional(?)
+* there's a lot of footer - about 2/3 of my screen. I don't see a footer in the mockups, but I'd suggest having a coloured band like the one at the top for a footer, containing the list of authors, maybe last modified date, and a link to "About this document" where we could put attachment and tagging information.
 ==Notes==
 *The set of arrows around the title are intended to be used for navigating between multi-page articles or sets of articles & won't be used on everything...