User talk:Dkpat/sandbox

Possible Sections

 * Featured Article
 * Directory
 * Welcome
 * News
 * Trivia
 * NIWA
 * What you can do/helping out
 * Poll
 * About Us
 * Featured Image
 * Featured Video
 * Projects
 * Affiliates

Yep, I think that's pretty much the only main page section on any wiki (Some I'm not sure are practical here) ~ dkpat 03:14, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * The welcome, directory, news, trivia, NIWA, what you can do, About Us, and perhaps Poll should be enough. I don't know about things like Featured Article/Image, because that feels like it would require too much work and attention to maintain to be worth it. Erik the Appreciator 11:28, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * Surely Featured Article isn't that big of a hassle. We don't have to do it the way other wikis do. Personally, I think we could have directory, about us, polls, trivia, welcome, news, featured article, and affiliates/niwa (do we have any other affiliates?) ~ dkpat 12:51, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * Well okay on the Featured Article thing. NIWA is the first group GSU ever affiliated itself with, though. Erik the Appreciator 13:03, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * Soo.. Welcome, News, About Us, Featured Article, NIWA/Affliates (in case of future affiliations), Trivia, Directory. (not positive if polls would work well, I'll check with greg and the forums thing) That makes... 7 Sections. (possibly 8). For those sections.. I say we make them templates. That will save on organization on the main page, and make them less likely to be changed/easier to update without messing up the rest of the page. ~ dkpat 13:25, 28 December 2010 (CST)

Layouts
Since the actual layout of the page is another major player, here we go. ~ dkpat 15:33, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * Confuzzled as to why you would consider placing news anywhere other than at the top. News is new, and while it may not be pertinent to what a user may be looking for, it is essential to place new information in an easily accessible location. Welcome banner does, in fact belong centered at the top, all in all-layout 1 is the better choice.76.177.92.147 18:29, 28 December 2010 (CST)

Directory
Hey Hey, What Links could we put in the Directory? any new suggestions and or edits would be wonderful ( 9 isn't the most flexible number layout wise..)Current Links:
 * Main Series
 * Characters
 * The World
 * Psynergy
 * Classes
 * Djinn
 * Items
 * Summons
 * Enemies

I'm going to hunt around for possible changes ~ dkpat 21:50, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * I actually think I have a new one. Lore, for things like Alchemy, Elements, Grave Eclipse, etc. Also, rename The World to Geography ~ dkpat 22:30, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * That's perfect! That's a critical part of the series. Erik the Appreciator 22:37, 28 December 2010 (CST)
 * mmk so there are our 10 items. Now... How do we want them represented on the page? for images we have a max of 130px wide (to ensure 1024x768 support) They are in two rows of 5. Do we want them to be just text? ~ dkpat 19:06, 29 December 2010 (CST)
 * It can either be just text or images that look like stylized text. Either way is preferable over big picture-filled imagemap buttons at this point, I think. Erik the Appreciator 20:49, 29 December 2010 (CST)

Maybe Done?
I think It might be done.... Featured Article still needs to be setup (and I'm trying to get pointers for that as we speak) but.. otherwise, I guess it is finished. Any changes you want made please tell me now or forever hold your peace. ~ dkpat 13:52, 30 December 2010 (CST)
 * I really can't think of anything else to do with the design of the main page, so yeah, that's a finished main page design. Isaac should probably be the first featured article when that system is set up. Erik the Appreciator 14:28, 30 December 2010 (CST)