User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-5448890-20141212000857

Eugh. More updating of w:c:worldoftanks's CSS. No access to the Chat module. No visualization of who's in the chat. A complete re-learning of how Wikia and editing works.

If this change gets pushed to my home wiki, it will totally and entirely ruin how our editors view our articles. Check out this: http://prntscr.com/5ftalv

Now this: http://prntscr.com/5fte5k

The first is the old layout; the second is my emulation of the new.

Things to be changed: add more birds.

You need more things to stare at. When a user goes to an article, it's almost always to read information about that. Americans naturally look to their left first; this is where they see the wordmark. Ideally, they'd see the navigation and its long bar next. Afterwards, they'd go down, maybe spotting the rail briefly, then they'd go to the content. Unless they looked at the rail for two seconds longer, they probably wouldn't notice the infobox, as larger screens somewhat obscure it.

Things in need of changing:


 * Content present
 * There's not enough stuff in the window. Give me more birds.
 * Amount of content.
 * There's not enough stuff squeezed in. Give me fatter birds.
 * Buttons.
 * Put the bottoms on the top. Give me pretty birds.

Needs more birds.