Talk:Main Page/Concept/2007/December

Issues to resolve

 * 1) Featured content: not there yet.
 * 2) Research links: not there.
 * 3) Portal links: need tables inserting to ensure proper wrapping for smaller screens. No - did it a different way.
 * 4) Ancient Wikiversity image at top: fades to white. Can remove white and make image narrower, if others like the idea of bringing the image back at all. Done.
 * 5) Images in page: use daily rotation. Livens things up a bit.
 * 6) Text has not been changed - but perhaps it should be? Done.
 * 7) Blue - ?! Perhaps one should vary the colours of each box, like the WP main page. Prettier.

change the text
There are some suggestion for new introductory text at Main Page/Draft version 0.2. --JWSchmidt 17:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I put this in for you. McCormack 11:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks good to me
I particularly like the emphasis on well developed portals. I checked the click through paths to Lunar Boom Town and they all still worked properly. Mirwin 06:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Generally I'm liking this new draft very much. Don't like the picture on the top right though and I don't like the quote. Can we leave freedom out of it all for a while? Its just all too loaded at this point and its fracturing this whole enterprise. Perhaps something about education would be better. Countrymike 19:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The quotes are taken from an existing daily cycle on the current (i.e. old) main page. It's not new. It's someone else's old idea which I've just moved and reformatted. There's a new one every day. McCormack 20:13, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Categories
There's quite a bit of white (or, well, blue) space at the top of this design - I'm thinking we could use this to offer the finding of resources by expandable category "menus" as is done on Commons (see image). What do you think? Would this need more vertical space, or could it ft into the top of the page? Cormaggio talk 11:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * A very cool thing to do would be to have the portals/faculties capable of opening up into departments/schools. I think this would be a good phase 2 idea. Keep it as phase 2, otherwise we'll never get phase 1 out of the door. Your suggestions are technically complex! But, of course, excellent. McCormack 11:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok! Cormaggio talk 12:01, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you could start developing a plug-in template for this now, though. ;-)  McCormack 13:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * McCormack, you may be interested in mw:extension:tree view.Hillgentleman|Talk 16:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)