Talk:AphidPedia/Redesign
Op v. Tachyon puzzles
I really like the new look... it's very killer. One improvement that I wanted to have done on the old version is to distinguish (in some way) between the OpAphid puzzles and the Tachyon puzzles. Could be a different font or backgroud, or even using the Tac and Op initials. Or... it might be pointless to do so, I wouldn't know. I don't follow the games that closely, which is why it's not immediately obvious to me who did what drop. Thanks... OwenIsCool 16:07, 18 February 2007 (CST)
Op has only done 2 drops and I'm not sure if having that info on the link is actually value added. It may make the "side" issue more salient and that's been a problem with new players since they expect there to be sides and there aren't any. Tigerlilylynn 16:34, 18 February 2007 (CST)
- Uh, I feel kind of stupid asking this... bc clearly I'm behind. But I thought there was Team Tachyon and Team OpAphid... my mistake? What was the point of the USA Today call stuff? If you have a link to a forum thread that explains that or something... that'd be useful. OwenIsCool 16:46, 18 February 2007 (CST)
- The teams are in name only. We work together on everything and new players get tangled in thinking we need to keep secrets when we've been lectured by the PM to just play together and ignore the in-game "team" aspect. ^_^ Tigerlilylynn 20:40, 18 February 2007 (CST)
Colors
The colors are pretty harsh too. It needs more contrast like the old page has. (also, love those little eyes on the old headers) Tigerlilylynn 16:44, 18 February 2007 (CST)
- How is that? (Gotta admit, I forgot the eyes...I did want to include them, but lost the thought while fighting with the table styles.)
- The links are a little hard to read now, but if OwenIsCool helps me with the stylesheet again, that shouldn't been an issue in the final version.
- Renegade 17:31, 18 February 2007 (CST)
going live?
is there any reason we aren't going live with this redesign yet? -Misty 23:54, 1 April 2007 (CDT)
- Well, several things. 1) Who knows if OpAphid is even going to continue. 2) Although the layout of the video column is a clear improvement, I actually dislike the color scheme and find it a little hard to read. 3) I don't think there was consensus from Aphid players to redesign, but due to 1, I'm not sure that matters. --JayHenry 00:13, 2 April 2007 (CDT)
- We need a black link class to fix the coloring in the list of videos. That was what kept me from pushing it (although I admit I didn't write/request one yet, simply because there doesn't seem to be much interest in this design). The margins and padding are different in IE as well, although that might be hard to fix this time...Microsoft doesn't care for standards.
- And even if OpAphid doesn't continue, it is a more or less glorious part of LG15's history, and Aphidpedia might act as a front page to that. So I don't think "Argument 1" holds. ;)
- The class below, if added to the CSS, should color the links in the video list black, thereby finishing the colorscheme:
.ap_vidlist a {
color: Black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.ap_vidlist a:hover {
color: Black;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.ap_vidlist a:visited {
color: Black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.ap_vidlist a:active {
color: #FFD700;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.ap_vidlist a.external {
color: Black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.ap_vidlist a.external:hover {
color: Black;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.ap_vidlist a.external:visited {
color: Black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.ap_vidlist a.external:active {
color: #FFD700;
text-decoration: underline;
}
