gaaran
Well, I've been hard at work on a new design for my main page, and with some help from Arsheesh and Rase, I think it's looking pretty good. Before I made the switch though, I wanted to ask if any one had any pointers or suggestions, or if things didn't look right in a particular browser. Thanks for the help guys, couldn't have made it without you!
"Click Here":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar-test/wikis/main-page
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Point 2: I'm using Chrome on a 1280x800 display, and your navbar on the left is cutting off the first few letters.
Point 3: This is more personal preference, but I think the different entries on your header are a little too close together (Especially between "Forums" and "Maps", for example).
One word of caution though regarding the custom navigation menu you have appended to your new campaign banner. While this nav menu should not cause any editing problems on your Home page, or any Wiki pages, depending on the size of the image, if you attach the menu to any of the Character pages, Adventure Logs or Forums you may find that you can no longer edit certain pages. I found this out myself when I created a new character and then inserted my new nav menu at the top of the page. Turns out the new image was too close in proximity to the "edit" options for that character, thus rendering me unable to edit that character. Likewise, since edit options for adventure logs and forums pages are located at the top of those pages, you might run into the same problem.
Course, your nav menu is smaller than mine so you may not run into the same problems I did. At any rate, good work.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Yergi: thanks for the input, sounds good, I'll see if I can cut it down, as 1280x800 isn't uncommon for a laptop, but i might just have to live with it.
Arsheesh: I noticed that as well, with the way it works, at least in google chrome, there's a "ghost" of the left side nav bar that appears over your main page, so you can click on anything that would be in that space. almost got in trouble with a blank test page, i couldn't click on the edit page box :P. That shouldn't cause any problems for users though, so as long as I'm careful, it should work out okay :)
One last question I have, other than welcoming any further input, is: are you guys sure that the background on OP is 202020? cause that's the color i use in photoshop when I'm making my image, and it seems slightly darker than the OP background. Thanks again!
I've also noticed when doing a routine zoom in/out that there appear to be two header banners - if you're using one for spacing, you should change it to a div of specific size instead.
I'll keep my eye open for that sizing issue, as I haven't seen it on my browsers.
*Ah I think I see. Just floated it into the negatives?
"Test Campaign Page":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar-test/wikis/nations
"Live Campaign Page":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar/wikis/Geography
Edit: I just went ahead and redid it on the live version. If it doesn't show up correctly, please let me know, I've tested it in firefox, chrome and IE.
"The Main Page":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar/wikis/main-page
"The Map Room":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar/wikis/Geography
Thanks for all the help and input guys, couldn't have done it without you. Especially Rase and Sheesh for the two design templates.
*Jealousy is setting in, Gaaran!* I love it! I want to hug it and kiss it and CENSORED FOR DECENCY it, in fact. However, I tried to implement just one of those fancy codes, and my whole site seemed like it was heading down a dark and stormy road of browser incompatibility.
Seeing as how I have hundreds of wiki pages to update whenever I change anything even remotely substantial, I'm sitting back and waiting until it seems like everyone doing this new wiki-prettification thing get further along in their own bug-fixing efforts.
Gaaran, I think that aesthetically, your side bar would look nicer if it was a bit higher, perhaps with the top white line above the first row of text parallel to the top of the campaign banner? Also, since the Chronicler is referring to the side bar as a card catalog, perhaps it should be decorated as such? I don't know how, but you axed for suggestions. Which hurt, by the way. Next time, ask instead. :)
Gaaran, that's amazing. I have a sidebar fix for you. (And as for the 202020 thing, I just did a screencap of the background and edited the photo on pixlr.com No idea if it's actual-factual, that's just what it told me.) Sidebar Fix: To have clickable links on the left of the page: Decrease the size of the "width" div to 10px. I learned this while developing code "here":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/planescape-campaign/wikis/dusktest That'll give you the proper ability to click anywhere you want to do your editing.
thanks dusk! I'm actually taking a page out of your book though, as far as content is concerned, Instead of having tons of wiki pages with very little on them, I've going to be making longer wiki pages split into sections. This project is going to take a long time as i'm not just changing the layout, but re-arranging the content as well... but i think it'll be worth it in the end, I already think it looks 10 times better (on my arbitrary scale of betterness).
I think we need a scale or betterness. It could be measured in Truthiness units, or perhaps Awesomes? Maybe Coolrads, or something suitably nifty. ...I kind of want to go the Duskroute, but It's so haaaaaaaaaaaaard... (Waaah). Mostly, I'm lacking content, so I've been compartmentalizing, to try and make it look like it's more awesome than it really is :P
edit: oh, and i like coolrads, those sound fun
only the wiki pages do, here and some others: "http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar/wikis/main-page":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar/wikis/main-page
i've tested it in chrome, FF and IE, so i think i'm good...
I totally want my tabs to be thematically tied to by banners and backgrounds. I totally don't wanna learn how to do it either. Is there a cheat sheet?