There is a lot to know about them. Don't be afraid to invade other peoples HTML to learn what they are doing. But just to chronicle some major events, and put in my 2 cents on current events. I just added them in. Hopefully making the site easier to navigate.
Lessons Think like a user .
This allowed me to think that visiting users would want to see what was new since last time. Arrange things multiple ways. There are many ways to display and find information. Don't be afraid to look at what others are doing and learn from them. Get out there, look around at what others are doing, and how they are doing it.