Help talk:Infobox development 2009 to 2011

Design Discussion

I just wanted to start a bit of a discussion on what everyone would like to see in the infobox design for the site. A unified color scheme? A different color scheme depending on the type of infobox? Lots of individual fields (Writer 1, Writer 2, and Writer 3) or a single field with an expectation of multiple entries?

Once we have some consensus on design ideas we can post them on the project page as guidelines for development.

Does anyone have any thoughts? --Raukodraug 16:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Let's see:

1. Different colour schemes: If it's different objects, use different colours. There's so many repetitions between fields that infoboxes look very similar unless they are different colours.
2. One field, many entries: Having multiple fields for the same type of entry just seems redundant.
3. Optional fields: The thing I really liked about the newest comic infobox was that if you didn't have an entry for a field, it wouldn't show. The Alias field is very rarely used, but it's always there for all the species and planet and individual infoboxes.
4. Not too large: Just keep it to the essentials. If you need more information, just read the article.
5. That "No Picture Available" picture was kind-of neat: You know, the one from the newest comic infobox.

Those are the only major features I can think of at the moment. -<Azes13 16:56, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree with everything Azes said, except about the "No pic" picture. I thought it was rather garish and distracting. Although I might be able to live with it if it were smaller. Monkey with a Gun 17:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)