Wikipedia talk:2008 main page redesign proposal/Ryan Postlethwaite

Merge

The blue search line with the actual search box. --Allemandtando (talk) 21:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've been trying to do that, but I'm not sure how to. Could you have a go? Ryan Postlethwaite 21:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

no idea mate - help someone! --Allemandtando (talk) 21:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bright colors

The yellow and the red are much too bright. Some people using Wikipedia have problems seeing colors so it's best to keep to nice neutral colors as much as possible. --Andrew from NC (talk) 00:02, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the yellow is a tad too bright, but rather like the red. It's something different. JPG-GR (talk) 00:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, yeah, agreed - any idea of what colour to use? Feel free to edit the page if you have an idea ;-) Ryan Postlethwaite 00:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Side-by-side

It might look good having the Wikipedia Search to the left of the Portals, with the Search being not much wider than the search box and "Go" button, yet being as tall as the Portals section. I don't know how to do it, so I can't created it to see if it would look good. -Rrius (talk) 20:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Too much header

No article text appears on the first screen of text on my laptop - the header takes up too much space. Phil Sandifer (talk) 04:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Nice work mate, A suggestion for the "Portal" section. I recommend, if possible, having the images actually link to the portals (instead of to the image documentation), as they will likely be clicked more often than the actual words (I did, for example). Keeper | 76 | what's in a name? 16:37, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know

Very nice design - it looks clean and professional. The "Did you know" heading appears slightly lower than the others - why is that? Also, it is the only heading without an icon so that's odd. --Laser brain (talk) 23:21, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Solutions to problems from the main talk

Sure, the fix is simple; it's not that the ITN and FA sections are aligned a little too much to the right relative the "Featured picture", it's there is a forced margin between them and the two sides of the page — this results when by the method you arranged them into two columns. My solution would be to add a 5px margin on either side of the "Featured picture".

To do this, first go to the "Feature picture" section of your code. Find the parameter style= directly below the comments and insert margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; between the quotation marks.

I'm not sure which two boxes you are talking about, but you can add these two lines of code before the section you want encapsulated: {| style="border:1px solid #0000FF;" and ! class="MainPageBG" . And add this line of code to end it |} . Don't forget to reoptimize it when you're done — #0000FF is probably too rough of a blue, I'd prefer #C7D0F8.

Your "Did you know..." section appears to be disaligned as well (notice how it is not coliner with the "Featured article"); to fix this removed line of code on the third line below the comments {|width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:none;" .

Hope this is helpful. If you are still having trouble, I can insert the code for you. ChyranandChloe (talk) 04:04, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]