Forum:New front page for this wiki! Please vote and discuss.

Hey, it's Tigernose, who has came back to this wiki. From coming back, I have discussed with Sharkbate, Hat Pop and Seahorseruler on how we could change this wiki to be more visitor-friendly, organised and less vulnerable to vandalism. Apparently, Wikia laughs at us, and I understand why - so I want to change that. I've already done one step in reducing vandalism by introducing AJAX, a new feature - which you can read about in another forum of mine: on the Help Desk. Now though, after discussing with aformentioned users, we agreed that we should think about reorganising the front page to be more visitor friendly. Today, I designed a plan that shows the layout of a front page that I am proposing, which is more visitor friendly. I uploaded the plan as an image and it is shown here, below.



I'll explain. The plan shows boxes within it, and they are numbered. These boxes are all sections, like the ones we use on our front page currently. Below, is the key, which defines each number. Such as 1 on the plan, is the sidebar.

In order to make it visitor friendly, I thought that if we move all anouncments and things got to with users off the page and on a subpage. TS agreed on this, with Metalmanager's PROJECT:VISITOR. He thought it was a great idea, and the majority agreed. Don't worry though, on the front page will be a link to the subpage for users. The link isn't password protected, because it doesn't need to be. The visitor wouldn't care about it.

Now onto the sections. I was thinking that we should use templates for the sections. Let me explain... The use of a template, is to insert it into pages without having to type up all of the text within the template. The text is simply substituted with a template link (the two strange brackets). Do not get templates confused with the ones we use on our userpages. To be honest, we shouldn't be using templates on our userpages, we should be using userboxes. They are templates, but they aren't massively big and follow a fixed layout (pic on left, text on right). This is to reduce the clogging of userpages, and if you're confused still, just check out a userpage of my friend's - which is on another wiki. This is the link. Thanks to Jovar1 for his userpage. Anyways, I was thinking we should use templates on our front page. This means we do not have to edit the front page, but we actually edit the templates, each time they needs changing. An example of a homepage like this is: the Ratchet and Clank wiki's homepage.

Note there are a lot of things on one page, but this is just a plan. Now it's time to vote whether we should change the front page or not. Sign in the corresponding section underneath with an asterik and four tildes., if you're for my idea of a front page or agaisnt. Feel free to upload different ideas for front pages. Thanks!