Forum:New front page!

This particular note isn't about "new page" ...just a minor addition.

In the Helping Out: Adding Content area, could/should we add a link to the category of posts that are currently slated to be deleted due to plagiarism? This would facilitate work on those articles by newer users like me, who might be inclined to edit the articles (ezmode), but not ambitious enough to search the categories list (tuff). I found it and bookmarked it... just sayin, I think it'd be cool, when someone logs on bored and not sure exactly what to contribute today, to put that link in front of them, so we can cut down on the pages being deleted. My bad, if there's already an easy link and I'm just blind. :D Wanderscribe (talk) 22:14, January 13, 2013 (UTC)

More faffing about colours, margins and general design. (I had to work outside the box for this post.)

First, for reference, Main Page used to look like this. The darker yellow-brown is "navajowhite" and the lighter is "papayawhip". I've adopted this colour scheme, for some continuity, because it suits the 3e FR logo, and it's a style I was aiming for, sepia and brown like old books and parchments.

I've got several slightly different finished products:

My slightly older whitespace version: User:BadCatMan/Main Page. This was just a draft for working with text and layout, but it really has too much whitespace and little differentiation between sections.

A later coloured effort: here. This has a very light theme.

Here's my current coloured version with nice even spacing: User:BadCatMan/Main Page/design. The border is a "groove" of "sienna". The old main page actually used that, but it was 2 pixels wide, so I've widened it for emphasis. I've added a wood brown background, and I think the darker colour brings out the panels better. I dunno. The effect I was going for is parchments on a wooden table, or notes stuck to an adventurers' noticeboard. :) This is my favourite.

I also tried the full sepia effect from the old main page. Here's my effort: User:BadCatMan/Main Page/design-sepia. It looks alright, but it's too brown for my liking, and the red/blue/purple link colours and pale blue quotes and Gaming section clash a bit with the pale yellow-brown.

Other colour schemes we could try are dark and light greys like it was carved in stone, or maybe a forest-like green and brown, or white and blues like ice. Anything that fit a fantasy world like FR. But I wouldn't want to change it more than once a year. — BadCatMan (talk) 12:54, January 27, 2013 (UTC)