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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
My impression is not too many people use those links; am I wrong?
I’ve never used it so far.
The first little thing I had in mind was to drop that personal bar, and move the Search box to the upper-right corner. I would also like to drop either the Go or Search (both?) button, and put it all in horizontal alignment. (It probably is already, just needs to unwrap.)
I think that’s a good idea, although I’d like the labels to be clearer. It took me quite a while until I figured out at Wikipedia what the difference between the two was.
Another thing planned is a slight widening of the left column and styling the lists up better; introducing block functionality, hovers, etc.
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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
Maybe the thing to do is simply drop that bar to the bottom of the page. That way the tools are there, but not eating up good space for how little they’re used overall. We could also fold those links into the left nav somehow too.
With regard to the Search: In MediaWiki, both buttons take you to a “Search Results” output page, so I think it would be prudent to drop the “Go” button and just keep “Search”.
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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
I personally like the new logo.
I agree that the bottom of the screen is a better place for the personal toolbar.
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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
OK, I’ve made a little headway here. I couldn’t move the toolbar to the bottom; some strange wiki buziness doesn’t make that immediately intuitive, so I’ve simply plopped it into the bottom of the left column.
Search is moved, and left column lists are one step closer to getting some new clothes.
You may have to log out and back in again to see the changes…due to wiki needs…but you only have to do it once.
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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
Strangely, I see the new look only when I kepp logged out. Once I log back in, I have the old look back (including the MediaWiki logo and all). I deleted the cookie but to no avail.
Ideas?
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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
You probably need to log in, go to your preferences, and set your skin to the TextBook skin, you might have the old default monobook set.
It’s working for me both logged in and out.
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Ah, I see. Didn’t think of that. Now all’s fine.
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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
That’s starting to look really clean Destry.
Nice job.
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Thanks…looks like Mozilla has bee doing some wiki redoing too. Now this, DevMo Wiki, is more along the lines of what I forsee TextBook aiming to…full screen, liquid, and breaking the wornout ‘monobook’ mold.
Anyway, just speculating here. Curiosities and such.
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Re: [wiki] TextBook wiki redesign planning
Destry,
All the Mozilla sites have that clean, uncluttered look, using whatever backend they choose.
The DevMo site is just another example of this simple design, carried over from their other sites.
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Yeah, there nice. I realize now too that DevMo and Moz Wiki are two different sites (devs and users, respectively), but both done with MediaWiki nonetheless.
Also, I’ve managed to solve my inline styling problems, or rather, how to avoid inline styling. Needed to add the exact parent div in the rules; they’re now styled from the external css file as desired. Not that anyone should care, but just thought I’d mention it to cover my tracks.
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