Forum:Redesign suggestions

Front page
The front page has had the same basic design since it was reactivated back in October. Back then, it was perfectly sensible to link every article worth mentioning from the front page. Now... not so much. There's been an uneasy mixture of "everything in this category needs to be listed", "only a selection of pages from this category need to be listed" and "this page doesn't fit anywhere else, let's dump it here". Since then, the focus of the wiki (or rather, what its contributors have made its focus) has become clearer. That can still change, but for now, we basically have five different types of pages that share a common theme and topic. The front page should probably reflect that:



Should be fairly self-explanatory. The images are placeholders, obviously; they would function in much the same way as the Featured Articles on the FiM Wiki, rotated in and out on a regular basis. The wikia pony is intended to lead here, like it does now; that page needs to be reworked a little to make it more of a "helpful links" hub (I've already started work on the Templates hub page). The sliver of pink at the bottom is a collapsible (and - by default - collapsed) table with all the "other stuff", organised a bit more logically than it is now. --Tulipclaymore 17:23, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

Full-size example
The "new page" field totally works, by the way. Try it out. --Tulipclaymore 17:23, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

Infoboxes
If the above redesign (or something similar) should find favour, we should probably go a little further than just the front page. I don't want to go overboard with this, but one thing that should be okay is adopting the colour scheme from the above front page boxes for the infoboxes. Image which for some reason doesn't want to embed; left is with the default header colour changed to dark purple, center and right are with just the background changed; "mature content" red and any other custom colours remain the same no matter the setting). --Tulipclaymore 17:23, March 8, 2012 (UTC)