Talk:Main Page

Suitability for Small Screen Devices

I have a netbook and this page is way too big for it, so I'm trying to compress it so it doesn't need as much scrolling. Basically, it's a war on white space. Another trick is to link the images. By default, the mediawiki behaviour is unhelpful here - people like linked images and expect them to go somewhere. At the moment I'll leave the actual content untouched, though I reckon the links are of varying importance.

Robin 05:56, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

More... =

How about putting the 'More...' links under the images in a floating

in the top right corner of each section, so that it doesn't use up vspace?

Robin 06:10, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

All good stuff Robin. I must also get around to u/grading the Mediawiki software itself because the latest versions are focussing on portable device compatibility and other 'uasabilty' stuff quite a bit. --Peter P 10:30, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Redesign Coverpage for greater appeal?

How about "Latest People", "Latest Events" etc. ... Images would also be good. If it's SMW based, that should be fairly easy to recode this? Robin (talk) 11:24, 25 April 2014 (IST)

I'm happy for you to have a go at it Robin. It is getting a bit long in the tooth and your mods are always an improvement. I have a number of projects bubbling and too focused on them, plus content to be able to contribute much by way of redesign - also the server techie challenges take up more time than I like. --Peter P (talk) 11:39, 25 April 2014 (IST)

Known issues to work on

I've just refactored the source code for easier readability. In the process I've lost the orange (easily reinstated, but actually prefer just blue. I was never convinced orange was a good match:) but deliberately left it otherwise unchanged for now. However, since it's SMW based, adjusting the content should be a breeze. Issues to work on:

• Lack of images
• Inclusion of relative junk (e.g. Test/Main-page-panels - visitors don't want this)
• Lack of structure (people, events, etc. all jumbled together, in a way this reflects the software structure, which doesn't interest people, not the semantic content which does)
• Lack of details
• Quite a lot of space used up - seems not good for small screen devices
• Annoying "File:" at the start of the list of files
• Lack of excitement?

This is not an exhaustive list. I never use the main page. I wonder what it would take to make it helpful for me. I note a test page which includes image/video...

Robin (talk) 05:28, 27 June 2014 (IST)