Talk:Home/Archive06

New Home Page Look Proposal
With the introduction of Challenges in Update 12 I have thought for a while now that the home page for the wiki could do with a complete overhaul, take a look at They have just about everything covered on their main page which I feel is what the ddo wiki should be like. Their page is nicely broken up into sections making it clearer to their visitors on how to find the information they are looking for.

The DDO Wiki's content has advanced a hell of a lot over the last 2 years with many excellent contributions and some very nice features added to it, so I think it is time we overhaul the main page to be more efficient and better looking. What are other peoples thoughts on this matter? UltraMonk 21:36, October 19, 2011 (EDT)
 * im all for improving the look of it. show me how you want it to be on your sandbox page or something (please be low-resolution user-friendly though!). i liked Borror's idea of using Mediawiki:Sitenotice kinda as a sitemap too so, home = detailed contentsmap, sitenotice = brief contents map is the way to go?. --yoko5000 05:42, October 20, 2011 (EDT)

That certainly is a better home page than what we have now, the Guild Wars wiki uses the same layout. Moving to something like that (maybe with just one top banner and less fluff pictures/icons) would be an improvement but you'll have to keep the Mediawiki:Sitenotice header that Yoko mentioned, without it the home page would look like one of those horrible Wikia sites. by Mjoll 07:26, October 20, 2011 (EDT)

Updated New Home Page Look Proposal
I am starting to fall more and more in love with the new homepage look.. One thing that has somewhat annoyed me about it however, is the limitation of only being able to see the three most recent Updates' summaries.... I have a proposed solution, that I am ~83% satisfied with and feel now is a good time to propose a possible solution I have devised...  My proposal. The only concern I have about the way I made it work is the fact that I seem to have to use static defined page widths. Perhaps after looking at this idea, one of you can find a way to deal with that issue. ShoeMaker 14:56, March 8, 2012 (EST)


 * Tested multiple resolutions on both my desktop and laptop. Would like some more feed-back on other resolutions perhaps on smaller screens than what I am running, maybe even some 4:3s. My desktop screen is a 27" 16:10 1080p and my laptop is a 17" widescreen..  As I suspected, 800x600 resolution looks horrible with my proposal.  However, this horrible look is not restricted to my proposed scrolling section, it also exists on the current Home page.  So, I tried 1024x768, and it looked almost identical.  With resolutions above 1280x800 the scroll section is smaller than the rest of the page, which honestly doesn't look too bad unless you zoom waaaaay out... ShoeMaker 16:27, March 8, 2012 (EST)


 * I like the idea of keeping info of the older updates on the homepage. Not a fan of the scroll bar, but this is a wiki, still I like the idea. Have you tried  http://quirktools.com/screenfly/ or http://www.yournew.com/resolution_test.cfm to test different resolutions there are also browser plugins and other downloadable utilitys. Bladedge 17:40, March 27, 2012 (EDT)


 * I've asked for help here. Hopefully I can get a solution out of this deal.. Feel free to pass that link along to anyone you think might be able to come up with part of the solution.  Thanx. ShoeMaker (Contributions &bull; Message) 01:41, April 14, 2012 (EDT)

Holy CRAP! I'm using IE to look at the site, and the Home page is three screens wide!
I am using IE Version 8.0.7601.17514 because I'm at school accessing my home computer through logmein via Firefox and it continusly crashes and lags out while it tries to figure out what is going on, and there is a major problem with our home page from IE. ShoeMaker (Contributions &bull; Message) 15:03, April 13, 2012 (EDT)


 * It acting like the lines in the boxes have a "white-space: nowrap;" css someplace. I haven't found it yet though. It can't be the instances of " &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;" because there is a space at the begining of the sequence that screams break here if needed.  I also vaguely remember someone adding a "white-space: nowrap;" css someplace, but I cannot remember where.  ShoeMaker (Contributions &bull; Message) 15:29, April 13, 2012 (EDT)


 * Same problem with IE9. Firefox and Chrome not displaying the same problem. Bladedge (Contributions &bull; Message) 17:42, April 13, 2012 (EDT)


 * Fixed on IE9 anyways.. Very weird IE wasn't acknowledging the space at the start of " &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;" as where I wanted it to break lines.. I guess it doesn't really matter where the bullets end up.. ShoeMaker (Contributions &bull; Message) 18:03, April 13, 2012 (EDT)

Network Issues
I removed the "network problems" notice from the homepage. I think it was put there because of the IP address issues, correct? The changes I have now in place should prevent that from happening again. --Xevo (Contributions &bull; Message) 00:21, September 1, 2012 (EDT)


 * I take it we're leaving that notice there but hiding it for the next time the issue pops up? It is a good idea, since I did notice alot of people ask in the IRC even before I made the notice. Lets hope it stays fixed. Yawgmoth ( IRC &bull; Message ) 05:19, September 1, 2012 (EDT)

Adding in DDOStore on Twitter feed...
Sure, it still needs some formating and perhaps a new location, BUT I like the idea and think it should stay... Opinions, comments, ideas? ShoeMaker (Contributions &bull; ) 21:32, September 18, 2012 (EDT)


 * I don't like it for two main reasons: Firstly, it doesn't look nice, and disrupts the layout of the front page of the wiki. Secondly, the question is: Why should the ddowiki advertize the ddostore using a third party website's (i.e. twitter.com) news feed? Krlkch (Contributions &bull; Message) 07:22, September 19, 2012 (EDT)


 * The whole purpose I thought it might be nice to have, is they mostly post their free weekly item, and most people like free stuff. I was starting to get annoyed with everyone asking "What's this weeks free item from the store?" or "Where can i find the free codes for the ddo store?". I'm not opposed to moving it to the DDO_Store page itself if you think the free stuff from the store is offensive.

ShoeMaker (Contributions &bull; ) 07:42, September 19, 2012 (EDT)


 * Sidebar, bottom of the page with a section "Official News Feed" or something, it its own page and have the home page and/or store page link to it, but Not in the header of the site and not part of any wiki pages. Bladedge (Contributions &bull; Message) 16:53, September 19, 2012 (EDT)

Mabar is on
Started just a few minutes ago - about 2pm EDT

Dissaperance of outfits
Due to some change in game, the pre U-17 non-named outfits are disappearing. The details are unknown - it is unknown if they are already gone, or if they disappear on character or account log-in; it is unknown if it's possible to restore them. The devs are investigating the issue

Until it is solved, some people may appreciate a warning that logging in may cost them all their outfits. Would it be appropriate to put one somewhere on the main page?

Suggestion for Player Characters section
the 'Player Characters' section does not have the iconic races. It seems it would make sense to include them since the other races are there.

Done, Ionic races added Bladedge (Contributions • Message) 01:42, January 7, 2014 (EST)

U21 Box Typo
Unfortunately I can't fix it, but there's a typo in the box: "Festival of the Traveler - from March 20gh through 27th" (error in bold). Habreno (Contributions • Message) 00:30, April 1, 2014 (EDT)


 * Done, fixed in Template:News/Update 21. --Cru121 (Contributions • Message) 04:09, April 1, 2014 (EDT)