New layout is a big step back

I am officially complaining about the new layout for Technet's home page. It used to have nice icons on the top that were of interest to me. Now, some of those icons are gone, particularly, the icon to the documentation. It is very hard to convince people that the Oracle documentation is a very good resource. It used to be easy to get to. But now, OTN has buried the link to the docs on the bottom right of the OTN home page. This is a step backward in my opinion. I could rant on the other aspects of this new layout that I don't like, but if you could fix the "documentation link" issue, it would be a start.
Thanks,
Brian Peasland
dba@no_spam.peasland.com

Brian...there are now hard-coded links to specific Documentation pages (eg, for Database 10g, App Server 10g, and JDev 10g) as well as the master Documentation index from the top-left corner of the Navigation bar on every page across OTN. This was not available previously.
Furthermore, the Documentation drop-down menu on the home page contains links to those specific pages as well.
We're confident that the new design will expose important content on OTN to greater numbers of visitors (and with less frustration), and our analysis to this point is already proving that out.
So we may have lost the Doc icon at the very top of the page, but we have gained a whole lot more in return.
Cheers....
Justin Kestelyn
Editor-in-Chief

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