Draft skin

Appropedia is working on a new skin.

See:

  • Drafts of what the new skins might look like - see image on right, and the Photoshop file (you'll have to close the casino ads - please pardon these, and let us know on the talk page if you know a better free file host for large files).
  • Main Page tests


Comments and suggestions

  • Think about which links we want to make prominent. E.g. making "edit" very prominent may help emphasize the reader's ability to edit and escourage people to take that step. (Note how prominent it is at AboutUs.)--Chriswaterguy · talk 04:the 02, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
  • Green is a very common color, esp on sustainability-oriented sites. Could we use a textured brown, something like the current background? For narrow strips of color, we could experiment with a finer texture. --Chriswaterguy (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2008 (PDT)
    • Then again, Tressie's new logos are very nice, with a blue-green thing happening that could give us a good choice of colors. --Chriswaterguy 20:31, 3 June 2008 (PDT)
  • Serif fonts? --Chriswaterguy 20:31, 3 June 2008 (PDT)


Rotating image-links

Near the top right of the fan wiki http://en.battlestarwiki.org/ is an image (usually of a character) which links to the relevant wiki article. The image and link changes periodically, or when following a link or doing a hard refresh. This could be good for us - rotating through featured projects and other featured pages. --Chriswaterguy 07:42, 17 April 2008 (PDT)


Web ring

In principle...

In conversations with Peter Campbell, we've discussed having a web ring for relevant green/dev sites - especially wikis, but possibly other useful and/or collaborative websites as well. Chief contenders:

The important questions are:

  • Is this adding value for users?
  • Are they providing similar links back to us?

Implementation

  • A template on the main page, at the bottom. Simple, quick to do.
  • http://en.battlestarwiki.org/ has a row of links to related sites as part of the skin, at the top of every page.

Information architecture

Some aspects of IA (Information Architecture) are hard to separate out from UX, especially:

  • Left navbar links - do an initial carding exercise ASAP? (With students? When giving a talk?)
  • The Topic categories issue.

Subcommittee members

Template:Apsubcommittee

See also

  • {{Makeover}} - use where help is needed from a Wikifairy, to make things pretty and/or user-friendly.

Interwiki links

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