Give more importance to intermediate and expert content like , community, microsoft blogs and article of the day

Hope this will included in this phase. check http://forums.asp.net/t/1682598.aspx/1?Feeds+of+user+activity for more.

I would say, there should be a section, where people should go and learn how to build a complete website from start to end.

It would nice to have the option to exclude solutions or searches based on code base.

I believe that the homepage can be much simpler than this. Other than the ads that is already mentioned, some other items can be removed to make it more precise. I don't know if there is any statistics on the highest interests for the visitors on the site, but it's good to stick to them. I don't think the latest announcements and blog posts are the top interests for all visitors.

There are a lot of people who use laptop size screens, ie. 1200x900 etc and not 1920x1600 screens, try viewing the website on these smaller screens and optimize a bit. Om my laptop, half the screen is filled with fluff. Yes the images make sense but they take up a huge amount of vertical real estate on small screens. And yes, I tend to spend more of my time trying to learn new stuff i.e. visiting sites like this when sitting at home with my laptop than when at work using a larger monitor.

Points might be provided on the quality or completeness of providing a full solution. Like if the problem was posted requesting help in VB, a C# solution wont get points. Like wise a link to an off site web page would not get as high of points.

It will be better if we have link to last reply of a post.

When code is entered in the posting, if it ever needs to be edited, it seems the line breaks are stripped and the code becomes one long sentence. Or it may be split into multiple code boxes.

In the CSS, we see: "...font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Arial...". Please consider either moving Arial ahead of Tahoma as the fallback, or removing Tahoma altogether. This I'm sure will come off as an overstatement, but seeing the site in Tahoma ruins it for me both aesthetically and in terms of legibility. There's a reason you don't see Scott Hanselman's re-design in Tahoma; it just wouldn't be as good as Arial.

When I maximize the browser on a 27" 2560 px wide monitor it looks like a rather abrupt drop off in the background image.

I'd say "Web Development with Power, Productivity & Speed" is a long one. If there is a marketing team at Microsoft that has proposed this, then that's fine, otherwise, I'd suggest to have a shorter slogan, but don't ask me what 'cause I'm not good at it ;-)

Arial, Helvetica, Verdana (from the old site) all look much better without ClearType enabled. Segoe UI looks bad, really bad.

I think the beta's background image/colors doesn't look good.

I don't find it relevant to have ASP.NET customers section in the Get Started especially taking a big part of the page.