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Time for a new mainpage anyone? We need ideas to make it look cool and stuff.
So far ideas I've had/been floating around chat:
Ideas please. And feel free to start coding stuff and what not. Then hopefully we combine to something cool.
- CJC 17:09, January 14, 2012 (UTC)
Ideas
Character background
- User:Mr. Minifigure/Mainpage Don't know how much help that is worth but it's something. klagoer
 name that user 17:57, January 14, 2012 (UTC)
- Whoah... I really like that! We should use it! Somehow! -Cligra Join the redlink war!
- Lovely. I made a small fix for chrome. - nxt
- I like the idea, but not so much the random grey space in the middle NightblazeSaber 10:59, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- I have an idea on how to use this. - CJC 11:13, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
Slider
- Liking the look of {{slider}}, but the black titles are sometimes hard to see- any way to make that white too? - NHL (This was copy-and-pasted from NHL's comment when NXT organized the page.)
- @NHL - Black tiles? - CJC 10:04, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Titles :) (Featured Article, Kingdoms Joust, Dino, etc) NightblazeSaber 10:59, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, I'm quite zoomed out so they looked the same :P - CJC 21:40, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
- Point about Slider Quite a few of those images are squashed one way or another. I really don't like the idea of having distorted images on the mainpage. - nxt
SKP's Mainpage
- I'm in the process of designing a new main page here.
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SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 17:27, January 14, 2012 (UTC)
- From the top down, I see... Anyways, cool. -Cligra Join the redlink war!
- @SKP's page: looking good, however shouldn't the tribar and banner be before the part where it's split into columns? Looks a bit squished, and there's just whitespace in the other column. I like the idea of removing the "recent and upcoming releases section"- it rarely gets updated, is very long and puts too much emphasis on future sets in my opinion. Not sure about putting the featured reviews and customs on the mainpage though, I really think that the majority of people want to just see wiki stuff, if they want to see our reviews and customs, they can click on the huge links at the top. NightblazeSaber 08:41, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your opinion NHL. :) The Tribar and banner are squashed into the left column because otherwise the advert would cover most of it. That is also why I have left space on the right column for the advert and to help me visualise what it would look like if it were on the main page. As for the featured reviews and customs, I'll hide them for now. :)
SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 09:37, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- (that random space is going to look horrible on Monobook [well, what will appear to be random space], will do a workaround for that when we get a finalised page NightblazeSaber 10:59, January 15, 2012 (UTC))
- Wow, I really pay attention to the main page- Only just saw the banner got thrown into the left column in June by a staff member so they could have their stupid ad :/ Will work on a fix soon then since it appears it's going to be needed (how do you people live with all those ads?) NightblazeSaber 11:03, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- NHL, on monobook there won't be a gap for an ad if there isn't one, I'm only making a gap for my own visual purposes. The ad will push down the content in the right column automatically for the Oasis skin. There won't be a blank horrible space on monobook. :)
SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 11:22, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Ok :) Sort of off-topic- but to those using the Wikia skin, does the main page still look the same? I disabled my adblocker and did a Wikia preview, and it looks the same to me, but I just want to make sure (I took the tribar and banner out of the column so it goes the whole width again in Monobook, just want to make sure it works ok for both skins) NightblazeSaber 23:54, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
Recent pages/edits/whatever
- Anyone remember the forum we had about a box showing new articles on the mainpage? - nxt
- Oppose due to liklihood of bad quality edits/vandalism showing up on the main page. @NXT- sorry, vaguely remember it, not sure where it was mentioned though. NightblazeSaber 10:59, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- There we go. - nxt
- This looks very familiar..... :P Skdhjf(Talk!) 18:05, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- P Well done, you found it. (I had a good 5 copies floating around in my sandbox. - nxt
News Blog
- We need a news blog archive. Or those circle portal things. --CM4S 17:12, January 14, 2012 (UTC)
- Project:BrickiNews - It's the older news link on the mainpage. Ariistuujj »Talk Page« 21:29, 1/14/2012
- Can we redo the news blog so it actually looks good and not some senseless jumble of words that also has a random }} in the middle? NightblazeSaber 10:59, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
I'm going to redo that bit now. :)
SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 11:10, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry about not having this fixed yet, I'm really stuck for time at the moment so this will have to wait till the weekend. Sorry about that. :)
SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 21:02, January 18, 2012 (UTC)
Did you know?
- Can we remove it? These "facts" are almost never backed up with a source, and anyone can put one of these "facts" on the main page, making us look stupid if it's wrong. NightblazeSaber 10:59, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Agreed. - CJC 11:07, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 11:10, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
Brickipedia Building
I had an idea in which the main page would be made more like a LEGO.com page; namely, that we change it to a picture of a LEGO building, with the word 'Brickipedia' on it. Clicking on the doors would change the focus to another view, inside the building. There would be various doors there (community, library, customs, reviews), and each of them would have a 'building' image. For example, on the 'library' page, one clickable 'book' would lead to a random page, and another, on a stand, would lead to the featured article. Jag 17:49, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- As much as that would be a really cool looking homepage, I don't have coding skills to create that if I were to use animations to do it i.e. moving from outside the building to inside the building.
SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 17:52, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, but I was thinking that we could just have static pictures, and when the correct spot is clicked, then it would move to the next page. Jag 17:58, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- I see, that would be easier to create.
SKP4472 Talk [[Special:Editcount/SKP4472|Special:Editcount/SKP4472 Edits!]] Devoted Editor of Brickipedia 18:01, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- File:Mainentrance.png - hand-drawn draft of first room picture. I'll upload the others when I've scanned them.Jag 18:08, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- If you guys can give me ideas, I'll have a go with some code. - nxt
- File:Community.png and File:Reviews.png. Jag 20:38, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
- I'm trying but Wikia is being bl**dy annoying. - nxt
- I've sorted the idea behind it. When wikia let me, I'll do it. - nxt
IDRIVE
- This thing hasn't been used since.... well forever really. Should we maybe look at scrapping that too? Maybe link to Brickiprojects instead? NightblazeSaber 04:02, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
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