Wikipedia talk:2008 main page redesign proposal/SusanLesch

Great Job!
I think this is one of my favorite so far. I like the simple choices you've made for the headers, avoiding busy boxes or icons. It's very sophisticated and smart. You've put a lot of emphasis on the text and I think that's perfect for our encyclopedia.


 * Announcements: too much "shop talk" for the main page, the main page is for readers not editors.
 * I'm ambivalent about having featured media. I think the media button looks really ugly and I worry it won't work for many people.
 * I'd like to se the quantity of content in each of the sections reduced.

futurebird (talk) 13:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Futurebird, I see you are working on shortening text which is wonderful (it's overpowering here, we'll see). Announcements gone, sound file gone. Thanks. —SusanLesch (talk) 13:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I think this one is great except for the fact that the main header ("Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit") doesn't stand out at all. There needs to be some sort of header or something, because as of now it's just plain text that's easily skipped over. But other than that great work. — Fatal Error 18:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, this is also my favourite so far, but the header needs to be changed. – thedemonhog   talk  •  edits  21:11, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I must say, kinda sexy.Yeago (talk) 01:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

FatalError, thedemonhog and Yeago. Thanks for your comments. For now I've removed all HTML and CSS because even my simplest of rendering doesn't appear on the page. I hope others working on this project are having better luck! —SusanLesch (talk) 05:38, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Width problems
The page is just a bit too wide - I have to scroll sideways to read all of the right hand column. Additionally, the text in that column stretches outside the borders of the box, overlapping the background strip to the right. Anaxial (talk) 19:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments, Anaxial. In progress and yes I agree with you, no horizontal scroll is permitted. Changed to 3 instead of 4 columns (counting the static left column) at the moment which might help. Removed 'min-width' on the right column. —SusanLesch (talk) 22:57, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Intuitive redesign
I really like your entry. With the image of a search box, you don't let yourself be constrained by the expected size of the page? You also managed to understand the source and created the page with minimal code (unlike me and Dudefellamanbra, we pack as much code as we possibly can). I'm not sure if this one will be made into the main page, but by the method you used to code it — it holds a lot of potential; keep proposing new ideas and insight, I really like your entry. ChyranandChloe (talk) 02:14, 13 July 2008 (UTC)