User talk:WinterRose/Draft

If you are looking at this and wondering what the heck am I doing, well, I'm hoping to facelift the main page and make it less cluttered and more accessible by dumping stuff that's perhaps unneeded.

I could use suggestions, ideas, comments, random thoughts... Better ways to organize the info in more consistent manner - whatever you feel like sharing.

I really like the look of this - woot. Couple of questions: Can we get some kind of background as well? I've seen some good things done with a parchment style background other places. Also, is there any issue with the pictures you used getting us into copywrite trouble? --Shadowtop 10:40, 15 October 2012 (EDT)

Hi Shadowtop. Putting a picture as background might get really expensive, really fast. Even these icons are larger than they should be and have in fact been scaled down - but should be resized instead. Trouble is with mobile devices, downloading a 1MB picture as background might eat up bandwith limit quickly. I have considered putting a yellowish overall background and perhaps only the top and bottom "scroll parts", akin to Dave Garber's lowmort maps. I'll try experimenting and see what I come up with. As for icons - they are free as in beer (for noncommercial use, which this is), and furthermore I have asked the author for explicit permission to use them on this very wiki. He gave it (within a couple of hours, even) so you can see the small text at the bottom saying so. Thanx for comments! WinterRose 15:01, 15 October 2012 (EDT)