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Revision as of 14:20, 8 October 2008 (view source) Iritscen (talk \| contribs) (it's surprising how hard it is to do simple tasks in Photoshop, should have used GraphicConverter...) ← Older edit		Revision as of 15:13, 8 October 2008 (view source) Geyser (talk \| contribs) (→‎On The New New Main Page: maybe we should keep it simple; datapad idea sucked, end of story) Newer edit →
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	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)		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)

			:"Making the whole page feel like a datapad display" is what I suggested up there. Text doesn't have to be photoshopped, because bold Arial or Tahoma already looks OK, and there are some more common font families we can use; so there can be graphics in the background, with typeset text on top of it. However, I don't feel we should spend too much time on designing something as fancy as [http://guido.oni2.net/index.%20guido.oni2.net.jpg this] or whatever could have been the new design of OniCentral. I actually planned a compact, datapad-like design for geyser.oni2.net at first, based on [http://www.issendai.com THIS] but with a black/blue theme similar to Oni's Load Game dialog. And I could port it here. But I doubt we can make such an "atmospheric" thing work well within an otherwise plain frame (the default layout of the wiki is black on white and it's not going anywhere). Screen width VS resolution of the immersive screenshot or artwork would be one issue, visual clash between the "welcome" and the table would be another, and with the picture of the day next to a graphically enhanced text, people won't know where to look first and what to look for, sorta. So probably it's better to stick with my "airy" suggestion up there. A minimal block of text, and the haiku/POTD as the only artful/atmospheric element. As for the block of text, it's the same as on the current Main Page, yes, but it's shorter and more tidy than the ''previous'' revision. --[[User:Geyser\|geyser]] 17:13, 8 October 2008 (CEST)