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Flute
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Posted: 5/28/2016 at 9:00 PM Post #51
I think all categories will somehow overlap with each other, so I think we'd have to be flexible with categorizing pets aha.
It helps that pages can be added/removed from categories, so if each pet theme was its own page and can be put in multiple categories, then there can be an assortment of ways to sort em!

To take Rixva's list:
Pets
-----Fabled Pets
-----Themed Pets
----------Zone Themed Pets
----------Exclusive Pets

---------------Themed Pets by Festival (Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter, Week of Love/Fortune, etc)
---------------Themed Pets by Year (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
---------------Themed Pets by Certain Feature (Wheel, Garden, Bakery, Mojo, Fishing, etc)
---------------Themed Pets by Festival+Year (Spring 2013, Summer 2014, etc)
---------------Themed Pets by Species
GalaXys
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Posted: 5/29/2016 at 1:48 AM Post #52
I can start right now with the pets section~ (Though I might need someone to proof-read my whole thing... ^_^;)
Flute
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Posted: 5/29/2016 at 7:31 AM Post #53
Sure. o: I'll help you with the structuring too maybe.
I think making a template first will be more important than making all the pages, so we should have a concrete template before tackling all the pets at large. ;u;

How I was envisioning pet pages:

---Each species on its own gets its own page.
------Preview image at the top can be the generator's image (for uniformity)
------Has the flavor text from the generator copypasted in its own section.
------Another section for trivia/user-found information.
------One of the last items it can have is a grid list of all the themes of that species.

Afterwards:
---Each themed gets its own page
------Preview image at the top for each themed can either be the contest pet that someone entered in the design forum, OR a real actual pet that exists, or one with ideal colorings
------Description of each of what festival/year it came from, what kind of pet it was (zone pet, wheel pet, etc), what user designed it if it was from a contest
------Optional: A list/screenshot of the hex colors
------Gallery consisting of pets of real examples



Pinging everyone:

For themed pets of the same theme but different design, what would you guys prefer:

A) Having one page for both designs of the same themed
or
B) Having two separate pages

I'd imagine the template for A could be:
1A) Upper half of the page is the first design and all its info, then lower half of the page is all the 2nd design's info
2A) Both designs are mentioned in one space, and the information alternates, going Design 1 description/Design 2 description, Design 1 gallery/Design 2 gallery


For B, the titles will only differ, and the templates for each will be the same.
(ie Tiger Lily Aeridini (2014), Tiger Lily Aeridini (2015) )

I imagine Going the B route will be much easier. This makes indexing easier (so you can have the index of the matching Festival (of specific year) at the bottom of each pet's page, and minimizing overlap will minimize how many indexes there will be).
But that's my preference; it's good to come to a consensus (or know other viewpoints that I don't see from both options).
What do you guys think?
GalaXys
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Posted: 5/29/2016 at 7:58 AM Post #54
Sounds good to me~~ btw, I was bored so I created this before you replied <.< Is it something like that??
Flute
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Posted: 5/29/2016 at 9:05 AM Post #55
Looks good! o:

The small grid of small info looks good on mobile, but having it hug the left and right sides makes it harder to read. Is there a way to make a small grid that's closer together?

As for the copy pasted info, it seems so small in the generator...but so big on mobile lol. Should we summarize it or leave it?

The aeridini preview looks cool, but is there a way to expand the view horizontally to see more pictures? Or at least see two at a time (two adults, then click to see two hatchlings and the egg)?
Unless there's something that's gonna be in the small edit space next to the box (like a table of contents or a brief description), I think it'd be convenient to have a ready view of the adult male and female instead of having to click to see the male. o:
GalaXys
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Posted: 5/29/2016 at 9:19 AM Post #56
For the photos, that's the biggest it could get ^_^; (It's a fixed size) As for the others, I will try to experiment it when I have time~~
Fife
Level 60
The Sweet Tooth
Joined: 3/3/2014
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Posts: 1,054
Posted: 5/29/2016 at 9:25 AM Post #57
I personally think that same themed species but different should be one page. It just makes things easier to find and less confusing if someone stumbles upon the the page. I think this could only become an issue if there continued to be more than one or two colour variations. :)
Flute
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Posted: 5/29/2016 at 9:35 AM Post #58
Can anything go in the small space that's next to it? o:
Like a table of contents or description?

We can always put the images of two adults together in a photo editor (or MS paint lol), so maybe we can work with that. o:
The images auto-scale with the box too?
Fox
Level 75
Master Sylestiologist
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Posts: 11,722
Posted: 5/29/2016 at 11:42 AM Post #59
@Flute:

I think route B would be better (each design having it's own page for themed). As you said it's better for indexing. Would probably be less confusing for newer players as well.

@GalaXys:

Not sure if you used a mobile device (tablet, phone) but the gallery of images should be centred on the page, not right-aligned. Right-aligned is the most unnatural position for English-readers because we view words left to right. Even left-aligned would be better than right-aligned.

Also the information below it is weird with a HUGE gap between the 2 columns (avg. height, weight, str, dex etc.). This should either be 1 centred column OR the 2 columns need to be closer together (smaller gutter).

That's my input for the pet pages.
Flute
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Posted: 5/29/2016 at 12:35 PM Post #60
I don't know if this might help, but how about a "may refer to page", like this?

So if someone looks up "___ aeridini" and it has two pages, we can make a small page forking off to those pages.
(We can even put a description on the page saying where it comes from, and explain that there's two colorations.)
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