Talk:Main Page

Icarus, can you link the new Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index entry to the blurb on it in the main page? Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index Thanks, Saracenus

Done!

--Icarus (talk) 16:26, 14 December 2018 (CST)

Suggestions

Some suggestions to improve the wiki:

• It would be elegant if the wiki URLs omitted the "index.php" section, similarly to how it works on Wikipedia.
• Increase the font size to match the standard font size of Wikipedia. Small fonts were trendy in 2002 but nowadays readability on big screens is more common.
• A domain like wiki.greyhawkonline.com would be more elegant, I think.
• The general greyhawkonline page uses a very bright red which I think could be improved.

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- I want to take a minute to say thanks for adding suggestions. I apologize for the week in between from your post. We have been working on some really great things for content for GaryCon2019, and we've had to schedule a lot of things.

Let me respond to your great suggestions in order:

• We are definitely looking at changing the "index.php" portion of URLs. Unfortunately it is a very difficult change to make in the code and we're having to work on finding a proper solution that doesn't break the website (which it has briefly done twice).  :)
• The font size will absolutely change! We weren't actually even aware of the very small difference in the sizes of the fonts. Thank you for bringing it to our attention!
• You're right about a URL like wiki.greyhawkonline.com, but, unfortunately for site analytics, that's technically a different site we want all of our SEO and site analytics to be reported to a single domain without reporting to subdomains. But, thank you for noticing it, because it was a very difficult decision to choose which way to do it.
• The shade/value of that particular shade of red is a little on the bright side. We agree that it could be toned down just a little to lower the saturation of it, and have just a pleasant of site. We're going to try a few options and see if we can make the color theme better.

Thanks, again, for all of your help!

Icarus (talk) 16:35, 20 February 2019 (CST)

There's a tool which may help at https://shorturls.redwerks.org/. A problem may be that you have the shorturl the same as the actual directory, which isn't usually how you want to do it (e.g. Wikipedia's "real" directory is /w/ rather than /wiki/).

Personally, I'd place the wiki URL at /wiki/ since Greyhawk is already in the URL.

Other suggestions: 1. The title heraldry appears twice (once in the title image, once in the main page), and the greyhawkonline image is very large, and these take up a lot of room "above the fold"; the front page ought rather to be dominated by a tidy content index. 2. A wiki lives or dies on its user and contributor base. 3. Hopefully the site will make and distribute regular backups so editors can feel confident data won't be lost if the site goes down due to unforseen technical failure, as has happened multiple times with the Canonfire wiki.

Thanks for your work! Greyhawk books are mostly out of print so a strong wiki would be an invaluable resource for the setting. 208.77.22.180 21:42, 25 February 2019 (CST)