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it's surprising how hard it is to do simple tasks in Photoshop, should have used GraphicConverter...
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It's quite helpful when you explain your thought processes like this, it allows me to find common ground. For instance, I think the idea of an "atmosphere" for the Main Page is an interesting one. I kind of feel like we could only achieve that with something more radically graphical and more unified. In other words, if this is ugly, which I think we all agree on: | |||
ENCRYPT SEQUENCE TmeC119-67 | |||
Manifest 12A-694-v contains a number of fragile items. Note the follo.... | |||
<TCTF UNIVERSAL DECRYPT RUNNING...DATA FOUND. DISPLAYING...> | |||
Then this is less ugly, but still not pretty, and it's also distracting:<br> | |||
ENCRYPT SEQUENCE TmeC119-67<br> | |||
Manifest 12A-694-v contains a number of fragile items. Note the follo....<br> | |||
<TCTF UNIVERSAL DECRYPT RUNNING...DATA FOUND. DISPLAYING...> | |||
This is more immersive:<br> | |||
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t72/Iritscen/MPHeaderSample.jpg | |||
So, in other words, making some of the text into graphics allows us the freedom to use different fonts and more complex table-like structures (for instance, making the whole page feel like a datapad display; the above image doesn't really convey that, of course, it's just a quick and dirty sample). An overall structure would encompass the welcome text, the navigation table, and the picture of the day, all into one. Right now another problem on the Main Page is that there are two boxes and then a picture which feels tacked on to one side. | |||
So maybe we can try out some different designs and post mock-ups here of our ideas. | |||
As far as the Go/Search note, I just don't feel that the Main Page is a place to solicit editors to perform a certain task like setting up BSL redirects, even if they do kick butt. The thing is, I already tried to draw some people over to the wiki by posting on the forum a while back, and ultimately, even if it had a small effect, it wasn't much. I don't think we're ever going to see mass participation by community members in the wiki; it will probably always be more or less the ones who are already active (plus a few more if the community grows as we hopefully get more attention). And since you acknowledge that to readers of the wiki it is condscending to explain what "Go" and "Search" mean, I think we know what has to happen to that blurb. | |||
P.S.: How did you trim the first block that is posted above? It's identical to what's on the current Main Page.... --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 16:20, 8 October 2008 (CEST) | |||