Good topic! Overall they did a great job with the new layout, but there is always room for tweaking. :)
I agree it doesn't look very newsy with just one story. But rather than filling up the page, how about one full story, then headline links to the next 4 or 5 stories? People can just read what interests them. (Avalee, just a suggestion, you could bookmark the news page as your main link to the site if that's what interests you
http://www.warcraftpets.com/news/ )
The latest comments are from people's profiles. I think they're the lifeblood of the site, and it was all we had before the forum. A lot of people still don't use the forum, many never will, it takes a certain kind of person to jump into this madness, lol. I use the comments page to access the site most of the time
http://www.warcraftpets.com/community/comments/ If anything I'd put more of the comments on the front page, so people realize a running dialog can emerge there. :0)
Another front page suggestion, it would be nice if the New Pets link was more featured..? Or maybe thumbnails of a couple new pets. I'd want it to be hand picked for the layout every week or month, though, not just a random new pet of the day, since that may very well end up being one of the many cockroaches, not too exciting, lol. I love my Undercity cockroach but come on, they didn't even do color variations. XD
And I see we all need to go
rate pets! Not only are the top 5 pets on the front page all pre-MoP, but so is every top rated pet
http://www.warcraftpets.com/wow-pets/top-ten/