Misplaced Pages

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Original navigation Main Page Community Portal Featured articles Current events Recent changes Random article Help Contact us Donations search   toolbox What links here Related changes Printable version Permanent link Cite this article Upload file Special pages

Optimal search Enter search terms here   navigation Main Page Featured content Current events Portals Categories Random article interact Help Community Portal Questions Contact us Donations toolbox Cite this article Permanent link Printable version Related changes What links here Recent changes Special pages Upload file

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
  • Featured articles replaced by Featured content
  • Portals and Categories links added
• Interact box -- created, to seperate the non-encyclopedic sidebar links
  • Questions link added
• 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")

• User contributions
• E-mail this user
• Permanent link
• Printable version
• Related changes
• What links here

• Recent changes
• Special pages
• Upload file

On special pages

• Special pages
• Upload file

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