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The main page is looking great. The only thing that bugs me is that when you scroll through the list of red links, the "Reported by Gishman P. Fontaine" scrolls as well. Is there a way to fix this?
 
The main page is looking great. The only thing that bugs me is that when you scroll through the list of red links, the "Reported by Gishman P. Fontaine" scrolls as well. Is there a way to fix this?

Revision as of 19:02, 1 January 2008

GPFontaine's Feelings about the Main Page

Hey there, my comments will all be in the yellow background.

New Edit Buttons

I added the following code to MediaWiki:Common.js

 document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
          + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:MarkS/extraeditbuttons.js' 
          + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

It created a bunch of buttons that make editing a page much easier.


Front Page

The front page of a wiki doesn't need to be extra special.
It needs to give an idea as to what the wiki will help with and perhaps links to some general categories.
Still, if you chose to write out in huge letters FFIV > FFVI you would never hear me complain about it.

Menu Troubles

The trouble with using images as menus in wikimedia is that an external image marker will always place itself next to the image and the image will link to its wiki page.

An option is to get the images to refer to webpages, but when I tried to do that on your page it does not work. I think you might need an admin setting for redirects to work. Look into the command: #redirect.

I also played with CSS and Javascript. The problem is that many attributes will not work in a Wiki.

I hope that the ideas below will help you out. I'm not saying you should use them as is, but perhaps they point you in the right direction.


Menu Idea 1

News Forums Comics Images Staff Contact

Menu Idea 2

News
Forums
Comics
Images
Staff
Contact



















Wiki Tools

Seapine HTML to Wiki

Massive Redesign

On December 14th 2007, I redesigned the front page. I used a horizontal menu system and tables to structure the main page.



Good Luck

- GPFontaine

Thanks you

LOL Syd, thanks for the mention on the front page & Sysop Access.

I have a few more ideas for the design, but I want to work on a few other articles first.



The main page is looking great. The only thing that bugs me is that when you scroll through the list of red links, the "Reported by Gishman P. Fontaine" scrolls as well. Is there a way to fix this?