On to this week's poll....

WinCustomize is a big site that is, in large part, supported by user subscriptions.  Now, to a lot of people the entire idea of paying a website for some sort of exclusive content or improved service is a bit of a foreign idea, but it's what allows us to provide the services we do without bombarding users with a ton of ads, pop-ups, pop-unders and other extremely annoying methods of advertising.  Many of you here have supported us for years, through times both good and bad, and to you, we are extremely grateful.  But at the same time, we have millions of visitors every year, many of whom come back over and over, who for one reason or another, don't want to subscribe.

So this week's poll is an attempt to find out what it is that would make a $19.95 annual subscription to the site a no-brainer value to users.  WinCustomize 2008 is undergoing a very significant visual redesign, and as we work through the early stages, we are looking at pages and wondering how we can make the subscriber experience better, cooler, and more inviting to users who spend a lot of time on the site.  However, we want to be sure we're putting our resources towards something that will be worthwhile to our users, and hopefully encourage more people to subscribe.

So, assuming you're not already a subscriber, what features would make that $20 purchase easier?  And if you're already a subscriber, what would keep you renewing if we added it?  Or maybe what could we add that would make you suggest subscribing to friends who might visit the site?  We want to keep making the user experience better (which we have made great strides towards with the new site and better performance)

Poll options are:

• Exclusive Website Features (i.e. RSS feeds, enhanced personal pages, customizable page layouts etc.)
• Exclusive Website Content (i.e. subscriber-first tutorials, product previews, articles etc.)
• More Subscriber Skins (such as WC Select, RIP, Kryptonite and XP Augustus)
• Other (Please specify in comments)