Thread:Teenbat/@comment-27101389-20170609061848

Hi Teenbat, I would like to know your thoughts on a potential main page design. You can view it here. As you can see, I didn't add or remove any modules but did alter their positions and looks slightly. My goal, aside from providing a change of face, was to give the templates and main page a cleaner look by having less empty space and making each module more distinct and separate. These new templates also use the wiki-wide font (Helvetica / Arial) rather than Verdana. Additionally, many "more" links, such as those in the featured article or featured media modules, have been positioned at the bottom-right. I will now go through each module and explain more specific changes.

Left side:
 * Intro: Some changes to wording. Removed mention of founding date and replaced total page count with count of images and videos.
 * About: A new module. Meant to provide a visitor with an introduction to the wiki's subject matter. This is said to be beneficial for wiki SEO.
 * Featured article: No changes. Though, in the sample shown, the image is positioned on the left instead of on the right.
 * Did you know: No changes.
 * Featured media: No changes.
 * Forum activity: This is now a list of the most recent forum posts rather than just simply an image with the link to the forum. The link to the forum is still present though.
 * Tabber: This tabber combines four modules into one: contributing, tasks, wiki projects, and affiliates. Not only does this save space and allow for a cleaner main page, it also makes sense to have these together; with the exception of affiliates, the other three tabs all have information that is relevant to editors. A bit of a side note, but we might even be able to get rid of the tasks and projects tabs as we have the community page. The affiliates module abandons the image collage for a text list. However, if part of the affiliation agreement is that the wiki's logo must be present, please let me know.

Right side:
 * News: Using CSS, I made the blog headlines less huge and also removed the poster's avatar; I thought that the avatar was a unnecessary use of space.
 * Poll: Remains almost the same. The only change is that the border surrounding the poll is removed.

That concludes all of the changes. Please let me know what you like and don't like. Thank you for reading. 