Enhancing Wiki Tutorials

[andylegate]

You have my permission.

All my tutorials can be found at 2 different places. The first in in my signature. The other is at the Openuru wiki. Here's a link for it:

http://wiki.openuru.org/index.php?title ... _Tutorials

The only thing I ask if if you use my tutorials as a source, the pictures and or videos, simply credit me as the source of information is all.

[Tweek]

Thanks.

[Lyrositor]

You have my permission.

All my tutorials can be found at 2 different places. The first in in my signature. The other is at the Openuru wiki. Here's a link for it:

http://wiki.openuru.org/index.php?title ... _Tutorials

The only thing I ask if if you use my tutorials as a source, the pictures and or videos, simply credit me as the source of information is all.

Thank you!

I've begun preliminary work on a new Main Page here, following the standard colors of the GoW.

I've been making progress; some things are still broken, but it's functional.

[Branan]

The main page / wiki theme is looking pretty excellent on Chrome18/Linux. Great job. We'll probably want to get into IRC with Hoikas and nit-pick (Tweek is welcome to join the conversation there if he wants, since he did the original Wordpress theme), but I'm very happy with what you've done so far.

[Lyrositor]

Just a quick thing: whenever you check into the wiki, make sure you clear your cache - completely. Individual pages (at least in Chrome on Linux) sometimes still retain the previous style.
For instructions for your browser:
Firefox / Safari: Hold Shift while clicking Reload, or press either Ctrl-F5 or Ctrl-R (⌘-R on a Mac)
Google Chrome: Press Ctrl-Shift-R (⌘-Shift-R on a Mac)
Internet Explorer: Hold Ctrl while clicking Refresh, or press Ctrl-F5
Konqueror: Click Reload or press F5
Opera: Clear the cache in Tools → Preferences
A simple reload might also do the trick.

[Deledrius]

Lyrositor, unless there's a compelling reason otherwise, I don't see why you can't be making those content edits and additions here instead of one your own wiki. You're obviously doing good work here, and they are wikis after all with the handy versioning that comes with. The theming I'm sure we'll need to have more back-and-forth on, but feel free to do the page content clean-up here. Edits and tweaks can always come later, but it would be nice to have the incremental fixes to improve the quality and readability of the wiki.

[Tweek]

Ok, finally found some time to reply despite being on this page all day >.<

The layout looks great, I spoke to Hoikas a while back about fixing up a wiki theme to go with the site but I've not had much chance to do so. So it is great seeing you forge ahead.

I'm not sure what is still a work in progress and what isn't so bare with me here.

The dark blue links will need to be changed to something more visible, the more you can stick to the red and white the better (imo).

I would get rid of the "search" header and just have the search box, I would also apply CSS values to make it all on one line and fit with the layout. I would also probably make the page content box background the same colour as the grey used for the borders in the sidebar.

That's all I can think of right now. Awesome work though.

[Lyrositor]

Lyrositor, unless there's a compelling reason otherwise, I don't see why you can't be making those content edits and additions here instead of one your own wiki.

Okay, I was just waiting for the go-ahead; my wiki was basically my testing ground to be able to present the results. I'll start doing the merge as soon as I've finished the theme.

The dark blue links will need to be changed to something more visible, the more you can stick to the red and white the better (imo).

Yeah, those look horrible right now. They're on my list, but right now, I'm moving from a hack-and-discover technique to a cleaner stylesheet, so those should be fixed soon (my priority still is all the various structural elements, of course.

I would get rid of the "search" header and just have the search box, I would also apply CSS values to make it all on one line and fit with the layout. I would also probably make the page content box background the same colour as the grey used for the borders in the sidebar.

Indeed, I've been thinking about re-theming that input box, which really doesn't fit in with the rest. Thank you the color suggestion! I might have to make that sidebar a little bigger though to make it all fit on one line.

[Deledrius]

Lyrositor, unless there's a compelling reason otherwise, I don't see why you can't be making those content edits and additions here instead of one your own wiki.

Okay, I was just waiting for the go-ahead; my wiki was basically my testing ground to be able to present the results. I'll start doing the merge as soon as I've finished the theme.

No problem. Being cautious and receptive to feedback are appreciated; usually the people who do so are the ones least likely to be in need of it though.

[Lyrositor]

I've finished my wiki style. Feel free to comment on it. I've also almost finished the new Main Page.
http://lyros.ath.cx/wiki/GoW/Main_Page
I will now begin porting my new tutorials over to the wiki.