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You managed to omit a link to the site. How shall we say what remedies to apply to a site whose appearance we can only imagine?

But this advice anyway -- perform some A/B testing, see if proposed changes actually work before making them permanent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing

> Any ideas are welcome, no matter how outlandish!

I offer this outlandish suggestion: provide a link to the site so people can offer meaningful advice.

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I didn't include a link as the existing site is almost irrelevant and the vast majority needs to be scrapped. I'm more interested in how people would approach this from scratch with no preconceived notions. Like I said, I'm looking to approach this as carte Blanche to build a 21st century city guide/site/whatever and I'm having a brain freeze in that regard.

> I didn't include a link as the existing site is almost irrelevant and the vast majority needs to be scrapped. I'm more interested in how people would approach this from scratch with no preconceived notions.

Well, first I would look at the page to see what the problems are.

Your move.

Well I guess this is something of a stealth project for myself and I don't really want to link it right now. I hoped for ideas on where someone would start, totally from scratch to give me a fresh approach. If this approach is unwise or inappropriate for here then I apologise and shall leave it at that.

In that case, with the available information, you should strive to make the page better than it is. Under the circumstances, no one will be able to offer more apt advice (though some may try).

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