User talk:Phasma/Main Page New 2

In Progress

• Maybe swap the order in campaigns of HC and Hota to match the campaign pages? Plus HC came first :)
  • Perhaps? But Heroes Chronicles are 8 different games with a different storyline and feel more distant to the main chronology. I know I'd keep HotA before Chronicles but it depends how others feel. 20:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Complete

• At risk of reigniting a debate I found on a talk page somewhere...I don't think Forge should be listed with the other towns as it isn't playable in-game
  • I've done the new towns menu and have left out Forge, at least for now. 14:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Oh yeah...a towns tab. Lol great idea. I never thought of that either... --Legate (talk) 14:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
    • This also solves the very important issue of how you had 1 background from each expansion, but not AB :)
  • Maybe overlay the town name on its picture?
    • I did think and try that, but it feels a bit cluttered. I'll give it another go and see it it looks decent or just adds too much to the screen! 14:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
    • I definitely like the version with the names better. --Legate (talk) 17:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Maybe consider putting both Hota towns on the same line (and denoting that these are hota) and centering the conflux town?
    • All done with the names and HotA towns separation - it does look nicer with the names on, I think! 15:11, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
    • I agree, looks good! --Legate (talk) 15:43, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• Swap placement of towns on right to match the recently updated town placement (i.e. good towns are 1st column instead of 1st row)
  • New towns menu does away with this (which I personally don't agree with regardless) since it's organised normally but in 2 columns. 14:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• Add links/bottom text from current Main page
  • Evaluate whether we have the right links down bottom. Maybe a few more high-level/interesting/high-traffic pages? Maybe a goal is that we can navigate to all pages on the wiki via some chain of clicks from the main page?
    • Adventure Map
    • Cheats
    • Did you know?
    • Maybe organize the cut content stuff into a single hierarchy and link here
  • With regards to the above, I'll have a think about how to integrate that in a way that looks presentable other than just throwing text at the page. I'll come up with something, haha 14:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Done now in a second extras menu. 16:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Looks good. Have you considered combined the 2 extras menus (2 columns like the town menu), or do you think that would look to cluttered? --Legate (talk) 17:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
      • Maybe instead just change the "Extras 1 Menu" to something like "Modding"? Not sure the right title.
      • I think that's very doable - working on it now, check back in 5-10 minutes and it'll be done! 17:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
      • Done now. The tab name can change as we see fit. 18:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• Consider dropping the word "Menu" from most of the tabs (except Main Menus) (e.g. "Campaigns Menu" -> "Campaigns")
  • I agree that it looks cleaner without all the "menu"s! 18:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• Consider moving the wiki contains x pages text from the top to the bottom near the discord link.
  • Done. 18:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• Consider making the menu larger? Not sure if there is a target width we are aiming for?
  • I'd mark this as definite no, considering these are the source images and it also saves space if people shrink their browser windows (and is more mobile friendly). 18:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• You did a great job finding button icons to match the color/feel of each page! The only one I would consider swapping is maybe the Power of the Dragon Father for Lion's Shield of Courage. It has reasonably close colors, fits the Castle theme for this page better and is a shield to match the Artifact on the hota menu.
  • Done! 18:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• Preference: The magic spell pic doesn't look quite right to me. --Legate (talk) 17:43, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Have you tried mirroring the Magic arrow? It looks backwards to me right now :)
  • Possibly use the pic?
    • Done! 18:15, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• On the towns tab, consider marking the Factory and Cove with the Hota symbol.
  • Done. 20:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
• How do you feel about the word "lists" instead of "main menu"? –imahero 19:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Changed to other labels after Discord chat. 20:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC)