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Bunnywabbit · Post by **Bunnywabbit** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:18 am

now that you're on that, i think we can be more economical with the links on the main page. I feel there are too many and that in itself becomes confusing.

A couple of weeks ago i did some dabbling trying to bring the number of items on the front page down. If we put some links further down the path the user is probably going to take, i think we could be much more user friendly.

For instance, a lot of the stuff like 'top 10 things' could be behind 'play now' or 'about allegiance' or both.

for instance: we have four separate links about squads on the main page: About squads, Squad events, Joining a squad, Creating a squad. Only one will suffice (About).

I propose three main sections.

here.

New to Allegiance?
Play Now!
About Allegiance
Learn to Play (<- Note: all the training stuff goes here. )
Installation guide
Frequently Asked Questions

Community
Tech Support
Zones
Squads
@Alleg
Enforcement
Contribute
Development & Mods
Links
Rules of Conduct
Terms of Service

Squads
(list of squads)

what do you think?

edit: the pages for new players should of course be saturated with links to AFS/Cadet and other learning material. If you want to learn to play, you don't want a pick of six different resources; you want one good one.

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:41 am

I'd work on that, but

Main Page‎ (diff; hist) . . (-544) . . Juckto (Talk | contribs | block) (the main page should not look like unicorn vomit)

Rolled back all the unicorn-vomit based edits to the nav bars.

Freyja · Post by **Freyja** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:36 pm

That picture deserves a response but, for the life of me I'm utterly speechless in it's insanity.

juckto · Post by **juckto** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:30 pm

The problem with having every box a different colour is that the eye doesn't know which one to look at first.

notjarvis · Post by **notjarvis** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:11 am

Back on bp's redesign - was it deliberate to move the Security part from the more centralised position at the bottom to be a box like squads etc.?

Personally I think the CoC and ToS are pretty important and should be central, but I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the change......

badpazzword · Post by **badpazzword** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:45 am

Yes, it was deliberate. For starters, I think that I actually made the topic more important by moving it up the page, while "relegating" the contribute bit to the bottom. It still retained the red Serious Business™ colour while being welcomed as an integral part of the wiki. Y'know, hypertext, interconnection, all those buzzwords.

A large part of the wiki is focused on enforcement issues (just stroll through the new players' section) already anyway. Hell, to be honest, I think the wiki is actually overly focused on the topic.

Bunnywabbit · Post by **Bunnywabbit** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:36 pm

notjarvis wrote:QUOTE (notjarvis @ Apr 26 2010, 11:11 AM) Back on bp's redesign - was it deliberate to move the Security part from the more centralised position at the bottom to be a box like squads etc.?

Personally I think the CoC and ToS are pretty important and should be central, but I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the change......

I disagree,

You are only going too look at those once, and not closely even then. You really don't need them at a prominent position on the front page. Besides, a new player is going to click the 'about' link, or the 'start playing' link first and by-pass the TOC and ROC altogether. So your target audience is not even going to glance at those links. No matter how big you make those links: they're not going to click them.

Rather, you should confront a new player with the text (not a link to) of the RoC and ToS, somewhere in the 'Begin Playing' Path, and/ or before a 'download' link, so that they get the message when they need it. Everybody is used to this from software installations, so it's not going to bug anyone.
Also:
Legal stuff is usually found at the bottom of every page in an unobtrusive font. That's where you expect it, it's what you expect it to look like. Shove an extra link in the page footer and be done with it.

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:32 pm

On the training subtable we have AFS, ACS, but no Cadet ?

LANS · Post by **LANS** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:25 pm

I'd suggest bolding "Flight School", unbolding "Crash Course" and switching their places. ACS should be replaced with a link to Cadet-II information, considering that anyone eligible for ACS can be assumed to know enough about the community to know where to find it and how to apply.

juckto · Post by **juckto** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:40 pm

No, I think that crash course should remain more prominent than AFS. The wiki is a portal page for brand spanking new players.