I think that combining all the "Living with" topics, while it saves space, is not a good solution.

If new viewers don't see a specific forum useful for them right away, they will be gone, and never return. It is not obvious for a person viewing the site for the first time, maybe with Hodgkins, that there is a specific topic for them. You should sit some testers down and test them on where they browse in the forum, assuming they have a specific diagnosis.

Maybe some things should be automatically turned off when people log in. Once they log in it shows they are regulars, so some things they don't need that new or casual viewers might need. I don't log in unless I want to post, so I assume regulars would still see these items casually.

We'll check this. Thanks!

Sometimes it can take a while for a site to get indexed in Google. It's likely that this site will come up higher in searches for other terms like "TNT fundraising" because these types of conversations have been on here for a while, but because the LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards section is so new it will take a little longer for you to see search results display sooner on Google. It will happen though!

Polls will be updated more regularly to include other relevant topics. One thing to keep in mind is that the LLS Community is used by a wider group of people including fundraisers, so we have to make sure that the content that appears on the LLS Community homepage is relevant or appropriate for everyone. Again, though, the polls will change more frequently and will include questions that are more interesting to those who use the LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards space.

Well, I was just playing with Your View, so I will provide more customer feedback. (I'm obviously a parent, not a blood cancer patient, so I have the energy to do this.) I tried to make a page as simple as possible. I set the page to the single frame, then I tried to remove widgets. They seemed to be draggable to the top, and they disappeared until I hit update page. Then they were all back. Basically, I could add to the page, but not remove. Well, I may go back and play with this some more sometime.

In the meantime I have bookmarked the discussion I am most interested in "Children with cancer" under "All content" which is pretty close to what I want to see. I really don't need the title 'Children with Cancer' in such big letters on the page. The small list of menus is quite sufficient, as it still hurts to see those words.

Oops, I see I inadvertantly changed the title of this thread. I didn't know that would happen.

If you click Edit link in the Communities widget, you can select Yes to have it show sub-communities, then click the Save Properties button. Here's a screenshot (click it to enlarge).

Hello,

The new boards look good; the only suggestion I have is that each disease (AML, CLL, ALL, so on and so forth) should each be listed on the main page (LLS Cancer Discussion Boards), as opposed to under the tab "Living With..."

I know one can reconfigure one's account so the forum they want immediately uploads, but I think the most important thing here is that new users can immediately see AML/CLL/ALL when they first look at this website. 

YM

I find the choice of text and background colors problematic, please take a look here:

http://www.lighthouse.org/accessibility/