Wowpedia talk:Main Page Dev/Old-Archive-2

This page is for discussing significant change suggestions to the MAIN PAGE article. Minor changes and bugs can be put on the Main Page discussion area.

Please see Main Page Dev for a different alternative.

General discussion is done on the Village Pump and it associated subpages.


 * Past discussions (primarily about Main Page Dev, but relating to the evolution of WoWWiki:Main Page Dev 2) archived to...
 * ...WoWWiki talk:Main Page Dev/Archive01 Archived
 * ...WoWWiki talk:Main Page Dev/Archive02 Archived
 * ...WoWWiki talk:Main Page Dev/Archive03 Archived

Comments
I prefer this layout over Main Page Dev, but currently it's rather encumbersome to current or future mod developers. Currently there aren't any links to anything relating to XML. I doubt many people that are interested in learning how to develop know what API means, so they wouldn't know to look there. Then again, I'm somewhat biased on that anyway, since Interface Customization is the only place I live on WoWWiki. :) ~Tarog 08:11 April 12, 2006 (PDT)

I like this alternative as well; for the Interface Discussion stuff, I'd suggest that there just be a big link on the Main Page that links to a secondary main page that's specifically for Interface/UI/XML bits. That way the two classes of info won't be fighting for control over the main page, and people who want one or the other can just bookmark whichever one. Rustak 13:40, 13 April 2006 (EDT)


 * How about something like:


 * colspan="3" valign="top" |
 * Interface Customization
 * width="2%" |
 * align="left" valign="top" width="46%" |
 * align="left" valign="top" width="46%" |
 * AddOns
 * Macros
 * Developer References (Page which links to World of Warcraft API, Widget API, Events_(API), XML User Interface, and anything else reference related)
 * How To's (Page which links to a list of UI Tutorials)
 * }
 * This should organize it a bit better for new people get around. Something that I noticed when I first got here was that it wasn't easy to find what I was looking for in the Interface Customization area. ~Tarog 13:00 April 13, 2006 (PDT)

I agree with Rustak. Make it one big link to a Developer Reference page where we can flesh it out a lot more. The developer section currently suffers from having a few quick links straight into the most commonly-used resources and having people miss out on all the other good stuff we have. I'm meaning to create such a page myself, btw. --Mikk 15:50, 31 May 2006 (EDT)