note footpad Instead of creating a new area, I'd rather see a topic or series of topics along the lines of "Nodes for New Monks." It would appear immediately after you create your account and as an Suggested Reading nodelet that you could not dismiss or move until you reached second or third level. The initial post would provide a series of links broken into various levels of categories. The nodelet would list the main category links. I can think of several categories and entries: <UL> <LI>[Welcome to the Monastery|The Perl Monks Guide to the Monastery]</LI> <UL> <LI>[Chatterbox FAQ]</LI> <LI>[Turnstep]'s tips and tricks.</LI> </UL> <LI>[Super Search|Finding Answers]</LI> <UL> <LI>[Tutorials]</LI> <LI>[Categorized Questions and Answers|Q&A]</LI> <LI>[Library]</LI> <LI>[Snippets]</LI> <LI>[Cool uses for Perl]</LI> <LI><a href="http://web.stonehenge.com/cgi/wtsearch">Search [merlyn]'s Web Techniques</a> columns or scan his [merlyn|other works].</LI> </UL> <LI>[Development of the Perl Monks Code of Conduct|Expected Behavior]</LI> <UL> <LI>[Commandments]</LI> <LI>[Chip (on the shoulder) Monks]</LI> <LI>[Consider Your Audience]</LI> <LI>[Newbie Monk Seeking Enlightenment]</LI> </UL> <LI>[On asking for help|Effective Posting]</LI> <UL> <LI>[Writeup Formatting Tips|Formatting your posts]; what [Perl Monks Approved HTML tags|works]. What doesn't. (link needed)</LI> <LI>[id://32726]</LI> <LI>[Before you post]</LI> <LI>[In Defense of Civility</LI> <LI>[In Defense of Criticism</LI> </UL> <LI>Common Questions:</LI> <UL> <LI>[Common Beginner Mistakes|Common Mistakes]</LI> <UL> <LI>[Code Smarter]</LI> <LI>[TIMTOWTDI -- so long as it's not my way]</LI> </UL> <LI>Perl Installation</LI> <LI><a href="http://search.cpan.org">CPAN Modules</a></LI> <LI>CGI Scripts and Troubleshooting</LI> <UL> <LI>[use CGI or die;]</LI> </UL> <LI>Regular Expressions</LI> <UL> <LI>[Common Regex Gotchas]</LI> <LI>[Death to Dot Star!]</LI> <LI>[7 Stages of Regex Users]</LI> </UL> <LI>Data Handling</LI> <LI>etc...</LI> </UL> <LI>[Voting and Experience FAQ|Voting and Experience]</LI> <UL> <LI>[id://20974]</LI> <LI>[? why do you vote like you do ?]</LI> <LI>[id://27196]</LI> <LI>[id://25125]</LI> </UL> <LI>[Outside Links|Additional Sources]</LI> <UL> <LI>[perlfaq|<code>perldoc perlfaq</CODE>]</LI> <LI>Other Useful Homenodes: [merlyn], [tilly], [ybiC], [Dominus], etc.</LI> </UL> </UL> You may have noticed that I put posting below searching and behavior; this was done to help reinforce the idea of "search first, ask questions later." Also, these links are just ideas. I'm missing many, but the idea would be for someone to maintain it (I'll volunteer, if you like) and the community at large to suggest additions, much the same way [neophyte] handles [Outside Links]. --f Update: I'm suggesting a node based approach so that interested parties can add it to their Personal Nodelet. 58128 58128