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Revision as of 22:53, 28 August 2006 editQuiddity (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers40,758 edits Removing "easy" variant, as noone likes it more than original - And - lowercasing headings, just to stop the vehement arguers← Previous edit Revision as of 07:34, 30 August 2006 edit undoNamedotcom (talk | contribs)2 editsm →Reasons behind the changes (optimal version)Next edit →
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==Optimal== ==Optimal==
<div class="portlet" style="text-align: center">]</div> <div class="portlet" style="text-align: center">]</div>

⚫ <div class="portlet">
⚫ <div style="font-size:11px">navigation</div>
⚫ <div class="pBody">
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ </div>
⚫ </div>


<div class="portlet"> <div class="portlet">
<div style="font-size:11px">search</div> <div style="font-size:11px">search</div>
<div class="pBody"> <div class="pBody">
<div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; background-color: #fff; border: 0px solid #bbb;"> <div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 5; background-color: #fff; border: 0px solid #bbb;">
]
<inputbox> <inputbox>
type=search type=search
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id=searchInput id=searchInput
searchbuttonlabel=Search searchbuttonlabel=Search
width=17 width=16
</inputbox> </inputbox>
</div> </div>
⚫ </div>
⚫ </div>

⚫ <div class="portlet">
⚫ <div style="font-size:11px">navigation</div>
⚫ <div class="pBody">
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
⚫ * ]
</div> </div>
</div> </div>
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==One Other Change==
*Prominent Search, Based On Usage Rhetoric (other changes are great):
**The very first item besides the name of the Misplaced Pages webpage (and globe graphic) that should be evident is the Search Box.
**In addition, consider that Nouveau-Users (everyone's parents) are used to seeing Only One Thing In AOL (et.al): a search text box.
**Since this one is not across the entire top of the page (recommended as well) or solely prominent (Google, et.al), it maybe it needs to be in a shaded box, in bold, or with a descriptive moniker.
**Can someone can also fix the Box Class right border? It's not the width=17...


==Reasons behind the changes (optimal version)== ==Reasons behind the changes (optimal version)==
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**moved the ] link to here, from the navigation box, as contextually appropriate. **moved the ] link to here, from the navigation box, as contextually appropriate.
**reorganised to place "Cite this article" and other reader-oriented links at the top. (a straight reversal of current ordering) **reorganised to place "Cite this article" and other reader-oriented links at the top. (a straight reversal of current ordering)





==Toolbox variants - for user pages, and other instances== ==Toolbox variants - for user pages, and other instances==

Revision as of 07:34, 30 August 2006

For draft/example archives see: Archive of older versions.

Original

navigation search

 
toolbox

Optimal

search

Enter search terms here


 
navigation interact toolbox

One Other Change

  • Prominent Search, Based On Usage Rhetoric (other changes are great):
    • The very first item besides the name of the Misplaced Pages webpage (and globe graphic) that should be evident is the Search Box.
    • In addition, consider that Nouveau-Users (everyone's parents) are used to seeing Only One Thing In AOL (et.al): a search text box.
    • Since this one is not across the entire top of the page (recommended as well) or solely prominent (Google, et.al), it maybe it needs to be in a shaded box, in bold, or with a descriptive moniker.
    • Can someone can also fix the Box Class right border? It's not the width=17...

Reasons behind the changes (optimal version)

  • Navigation box -- repurposed as a reader-oriented set of browsing links
  • Interact box -- created, to seperate the non-encyclopedic sidebar links
  • Toolbox --
    • separated the contextual/local links (top) from the fixed/global links (bottom)
    • moved the Recent changes link to here, from the navigation box, as contextually appropriate.
    • reorganised to place "Cite this article" and other reader-oriented links at the top. (a straight reversal of current ordering)

Toolbox variants - for user pages, and other instances

On user pages ("Cite this article" is replaced by "User contributions" and "E-mail this user")

Toolbox


On special pages

Toolbox


and so on, for the "Block user", "rss atom", and "trackbacklink" links.
See talk:Archive 03#Toolbox