User:Eitch/Main Page/Intro

This is a work in progress, started by Eitch. I'm not interested in the "contest" idea of the main page redesign project, and so I don't expect this to ever look perfect. However, I do think that hide/show boxes are the way to go, and I'm up for taking on some of the programming (though if it ends up being CSS, I'm no help). I'd love to hear what you think! ( To help you imagine it without this red introduction, see User:Eitch/Main Page (no intro).)

The main change is putting everything in hide/show boxes, with the result that on the initial load all the sections can be seen without scrolling down ( Does it work? Discussion started here).

Still to do:
 * 1) Break everything up into little bits which can then be transcluded - then 1) users who are comfortable messing with their monobook can easy knock out the boxes they don't read and 2) we can more easily swap bits out as the page redesign is worked on.
 * 2) Can someone figure out how to make the heights of the blue and the green tables independent of each other?

Done:
 * Hide/Show trouble: why is there too little space between the "Today Featured Article" headline and the FA; too little space between the "Today's Featured Picture" headline and the FP; there's too much space between the "Did you know…" headline and DYK. ( disussion started here


 * The sister projects and other languages boxes should have the same color scheme - they're different to show two possibilities ( discussion started here).


 * I moved the "other areas" links to the top banner - nubies are the ones who won't know about the links already, and so they should be prominent.


 * I need someone with better table skills to figure out why there's an a little white square below the Today's Featured Article and Today's Featured Picture introductions (the whole line the square's on shouldn't be there; discussion started here).

*Can someone figure out why the "Recently featured" links aren't hiding along with Today's FA? ( fixed! )

The search box was written by Trevor MacInnis.