"Featured Content" area + chat box

[Scaredgirl]

Go the http://elementswiki.co.cc/

You can see that there is this new "Featured Content" thing on the front page. Here editors will place high quality posts and "weekly featured cards". It's a very simple process that I will explain later. Basically all you need to do is use the "Featured" category and add one link to an image you want to use. Easy.

There's also a chat box that anyone can use to say hi or whatever. Not sure if it's needed or not but we'll see.


Please post feedback.

[Bloodshadow]

The Featured Content are was nice.

But I kinda liked the old layout, when the elemental icons were put into a table. Right now we have nothing but 12 basic icons, which look kinda lame. And what happened to the "Other" section?

[Scaredgirl]

I'm tweaking and changing it as we speak wgich is why you might see weird things happening. I'm trying out different layout solutions. Problem with the old one is that it takes up a lot of vertical space.

[Bloodshadow]

Ugh... Those big, fat gray buttons you have right now is even lamer...

Why don't we just go with what Lyelle designed a long time ago? http://elementswiki.co.cc/teaser/

[Scaredgirl]

Like I said, it's a process and keeps changing until I'm happy. I changed those buttons first thing in the morning when I woke up.


I like simple, easy to use, navigation. The version Lyelle did has some usability issues that I find problematic. It uses new graphics so users have to learn to use it before it gets efficient. Anyone can test it. Just try to find a specific element as fast as possible and you will find that it takes that extra split second to find it because icons are small and partly transparent, names and not horizontally aligned, and colors are sometimes different from the game.

Elements already has awesome icon graphics that are known to all the players. Whatever navigation we use, those icons have to be at the center of that navigation.

I'd really like a system where all the icons were in a circle, and you would get extra information on hover. That would be both cool looking and easy to use.

Still Lyelle put a lot of work into that navigation so I really would like to use it somehow. Maybe it can be "fixed", I don't know.

[Bloodshadow]

icons are small and partly transparent

Can't we make them bigger and not transparent?

colors are sometimes different from the game

We can always change the hue and saturation until they look right.

names are not horizontally aligned

I assume this is what you mean? Then why not just simply align them horizontally? If there's no space, we can do something like this:
Gravity        Fire
      Entropy     Water

Anyways, can you send me Lyelle's file so I can tweak around with it?

[Scaredgirl]

Yes, fixes like that would probably help. But the code is pretty advanced CSS and I'm guessing it might be too much for you. Also I don't feel comfortable giving someone else's code. Ask Lyelle when he comes here.


I think we should now concentrate on wiki content, rather than some front page eye-candy. We have time to do that later. What we need no is fixing the old articles and adding decks. Main goal is that everything works and the information is all there.

[Bloodshadow]

I'm not really asking for the code. I'm asking for the images, with transparent backgrounds, so I can tweak the layout a bit. I suppose I can just screenshot them if I have to.

You said in PM that we can finally replace the link on the game home page once we get the front page ready. That's why I want to perfect the front page first, because I want to cut off the old wiki as soon as possible.

[Scaredgirl]

Like I've said, wiki being "ready" is about the content, not eye-candy. How we list the 12 elements on the front page makes no difference really as long as it's easy to use and doesn't look like crap.

I would say that once I put something in that blank space on the current front page, the wiki is ready. We can play around with the navigation later.

[rotface]

nice new wiki