Talk:Main Page

Rebirth Mainpage - Things to Do

• Figure how to wrap the whole thing to mimic the looks of GW2Wiki Frontpage. Would help to bring out more the background images.
• Sidebar and Headbar could also have some sort of background image. Haven't thought of anything yet, besides just changing them to a different (solid) color.
• Someone should go over all the sections, verifying references, improving nomenclature and removing clutter.
• Decide on the method of presentation for the Announcements, News, Patch Notes, Events, etc. Will all of them be under separate subsections in the the News section (current setup) or bunched together under News? Will the article entry be automated or manual? The current setup should be partially automated (patch notes at least) if DynamicPageList is installed.
• Fix the UTC Automatic Converter. See: UTC_time and Common.js and compare them to their GW2wiki counterparts. Oth (talk) 08:01, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Discussion Forums

For general discussion of the wiki, including discussion about items on the front page, please use the Rebirth Forums.

Protection

Use it.

Spring Fling

Section needs to be altered to say 2010, even if there's no new stuff. :3 Sera404 18:57, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Good catch. Should be all fixed up now. --Eabrace 19:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Navigation

For new users of the site and new players of the game, the navigation here is not optimized in any way. Even though I'm very familiar with Wikis, it took me forever to get any idea of how to navigate the site, and the side menu isn't that helpful. Would anyone be against a possible collaborative effort to get to a more navigational-based and new-user-friendly main page, such as seen on numerous other gaming wikis (i.e. WoWWiki, etc.)?   Hooper   talk    contribs    email   20:07, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

That's primarily the intent of the Table of Contents. Is that not helpful? --Eabrace 02:08, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

It is one of the most helpful of the pages, but it is still very lacking. Linking to categories is a basic way to navigate, but coming up with a Tier-based system would be much more easy for both new-to-the-site and new-to-the-game. At my work we use the term "least-sophisticated person" for dealing with idiots, and we basically make sure all of our procedures are made so that that kind of person would easily understand it. Its a sadly-frank-yet-good approach for websites to.

My thoughts would be to have the main page have only one section devoted to news, and then have one-click links to portals for missions, lore, locations, npcs, etc. Many other MMOs use this type on their sites, so it would be easy for those of a shared-demographic to understand. Also, for those not sure what the "Ouroboros Portal" is, it isn't immediately clear and understandable. Basically, just making things easier for newcomers. Of course, it'd be a massive makeover that would require extremely more in-depth knowledge of the game than my mere 20ish levels would allow.   Hooper   talk    contribs    email   02:13, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit: Actually, give me a few weeks and I'll make a userpage example of some possible redesigns as a start, and then we can have some community input if anyone else agrees. If not then I'm just the weird one.   Hooper   talk    contribs    email   02:25, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Older Pages need updating.

I've noticed that a lot of older pages seem to not have up to date info on them, and there was even a lack of a link between President Marchand (leader of the CoV resistance faction) and his Praetorian counterpart, Provost Marchand (a high-ranking GR loyalist). Also I believe Ingame References and Easter Egg may also be outdated. I also noticed some of the newer pages are lacking in easy-to-find info. Dr. Graves has complete info and yet Twinshot does not? Mattwo 02:09, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Feel free to update anything you find to be out of date. It's a group effort! ~ AGGE talk/cons 02:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Matt, you have discovered the point of a Wiki! If you find a problem... you can fix it!  :) —Thirty7 05:37, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I should point out that I have fixed as much as I could. I'm just a bit disappointed by the sheer lack of info...Mattwo 12:04, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Redesign

I just started a discussion about a mild redesign of the Main Page on the forums: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4505.0.html -- Sekoia 03:50, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

I took a look at the page in your "Sandbox", and I for one really like it! —Thirty7 05:00, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Alerts

At TonyV's request, I'm making some changes to the main page to draw attention to the recent SaveCoH efforts. He wanted us to highlight the alerts in red or light red, but as I'm colorblind... who knows if I picked sane colors. :) If anyone who isn't color challenged wants to help, you can modify my choices for the style= option for {{MP Heading}} and {{Newsdate}}. -- Sekoia 14:01, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Discussion thread for the changes made is here: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4941.0.html -- Sekoia 14:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Sidebar Update?

Not sure where else to put this discussion, but the "Splasher" utility site is broken. I don't really know what it is, but the most recent Internet Archive date is: https://web.archive.org/web/20140211051254/http://www.splasher.com.ar/ I suppose you could update with that (although you can't download the actual Splasher), or remove it entirely, or link an equivalent instead? Felderburg 21:28, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

According to Leandro, the domain has expired and there are no plans to resurrect it for the near future. So I've removed the link. — talk / contribs 00:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Neato. And now I know where to make comments on the sidebar! Felderburg 15:17, 11 October 2014 (UTC)