Regarding the design itself, the colored boxes remind me more of a children's party than a useful piece of software. If you want to add color to the page, it seems like there are other ways to do it without calling garish attention to the Wine logo.
Garish? ;-) I thought the top X entries looked great.
That said, winehq and appdb definitely need a new redesign, and I'm very happy you've offered to help.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
We've been throwing around the idea of switching the site to using drupal for a while now so we can more easily manage it remotely and take advantage of things like polls and news stories.
I'll suggest the same thing I mentioned the last time the redesign came up, we should make the changes individually, picking the most important ones first.
- Program icons (I really like these) - Stats block on the main page is great (This is something Drupal is suited to, enabling us to add a box like this and make it user configurable) - Collapsing the many 'browse' options, maybe into a menu that expands when clicked or hovered, or simply removing the options and improving the UI to have the same capabilities without special links.
I'm sure more can be found but these are the ones that stuck out as some of the biggest improvements. We also need to find people interested in working on some of these features.
Chris