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I disagree with renagades ordering, the first thing should be welcome.  I also don't see why we need to have all those verbose paragraphs if we trimmed the text we could have the welcome message and spoiler art in the space the spoiler alert is taking now also the portal  intros are too wordy too. -[[User:Misty|misty]] 12:37, 14 July 2007 (CDT)
 
I disagree with renagades ordering, the first thing should be welcome.  I also don't see why we need to have all those verbose paragraphs if we trimmed the text we could have the welcome message and spoiler art in the space the spoiler alert is taking now also the portal  intros are too wordy too. -[[User:Misty|misty]] 12:37, 14 July 2007 (CDT)
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:#The primary purpose of the page is to be a portal to the other ones. (Not our idea, complain to Miles.)
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:#The spoiler warning should warn of spoilers before they might occur.
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:#The welcome message is not that important.
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:The point is, how often are you going to read the welcome message?
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:Once you've read it, all you want in the future is to quickly proceed to your series of choice, nothing more. The way the page is designed currently, the portal-part is right in plain sight and can be used without further scrolling.
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:With your ordering, you're forcing the user to scroll past a giant box he's ignoring, just to click on a link to leave the page he's not interested in anyway.
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:Look at it this way: There are two parts of the page now - the portal part, and the main page part. The portal part is at the top and links to the other portals, while the bottom part is a main page for the 'pedia as a whole.
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:Your re-ordering mashed up these two parts. Right now, it's Meta-Warning - Portals - LGPedia; you had LGPedia - Portals - Meta-Warning - LGPedia. And that just doesn't make much sense from a design point of view.
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:In addition to all that, as much as I like to stay diplomatic, the giant message box at the top just looked like crap.
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:As for the spoiler-warning, the portal-links lead to series news and episode guides. So with your ordering, somebody could scroll past the welcome box that's blocking his way, click on Lonelygirl15, and be instantly spoiled, before ever even seeing the warning.
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:There is no use having a spoiler-warning ''after'' you linked to the majority of spoiling content.
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:And finally, a fixed width of 800px makes no sense whatsoever. Not only is fixed width unnecessary, 800px also instantly makes the main page unusable for anyone with 800x600 or lower.
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::~ [[User:Renegade|Renegade]] ([[User talk:Renegade|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Renegade|contribs]]) 12:59, 14 July 2007 (CDT)

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I disagree with renagades ordering, the first thing should be welcome. I also don't see why we need to have all those verbose paragraphs if we trimmed the text we could have the welcome message and spoiler art in the space the spoiler alert is taking now also the portal intros are too wordy too. -misty 12:37, 14 July 2007 (CDT)

  1. The primary purpose of the page is to be a portal to the other ones. (Not our idea, complain to Miles.)
  2. The spoiler warning should warn of spoilers before they might occur.
  3. The welcome message is not that important.
The point is, how often are you going to read the welcome message?
Once you've read it, all you want in the future is to quickly proceed to your series of choice, nothing more. The way the page is designed currently, the portal-part is right in plain sight and can be used without further scrolling.
With your ordering, you're forcing the user to scroll past a giant box he's ignoring, just to click on a link to leave the page he's not interested in anyway.
Look at it this way: There are two parts of the page now - the portal part, and the main page part. The portal part is at the top and links to the other portals, while the bottom part is a main page for the 'pedia as a whole.
Your re-ordering mashed up these two parts. Right now, it's Meta-Warning - Portals - LGPedia; you had LGPedia - Portals - Meta-Warning - LGPedia. And that just doesn't make much sense from a design point of view.
In addition to all that, as much as I like to stay diplomatic, the giant message box at the top just looked like crap.
As for the spoiler-warning, the portal-links lead to series news and episode guides. So with your ordering, somebody could scroll past the welcome box that's blocking his way, click on Lonelygirl15, and be instantly spoiled, before ever even seeing the warning.
There is no use having a spoiler-warning after you linked to the majority of spoiling content.
And finally, a fixed width of 800px makes no sense whatsoever. Not only is fixed width unnecessary, 800px also instantly makes the main page unusable for anyone with 800x600 or lower.
~ Renegade (talk | contribs) 12:59, 14 July 2007 (CDT)