Board Thread:News and Announcements!/@comment-7971816-20161202153313/@comment-27794543-20161203094222

Hi voters,

I'm interested in some additional info (which has no impact to poll results):
 * We currently use three bubble styles (with some slight variations): gradient green, gradient black, and transparent with gradient header. Which do you prefer? Should we use the same style for all the bubbles or use different styles? (Btw, all versions in the poll use gradient black for first bubble and then change styles for remaining bubbles.)
 * For the slider (the large image that slides between four images): do you prefer it within the first bubble (e.g. version 2 & version 3) or outside the first bubble (e.g. version 1 & version 4) ?
 * As far as the text of the welcome bubble (first bubble) and the help-us bubble (last bubble): do you prefer shorter welcome with longer help-us (e.g. version 2 & version 3 – ignore slider) or longer welcome with shorter help-us (e.g. version 1 & version 4) ?
 * As far as the content (text & images) of the two middle bubbles: do you prefer separate tv & book bubbles (e.g. version 2, version 3, & version 4) or tv & book info mixed together in both bubbles (e.g. version 1) ?

Some other notes:
 * Header font (ignore first bubble):
 * Right now, on current main page, (also in version 1) we're using images for the header texts (e.g. "About the Show", "Help us Out!", etc). While I really like the font used, using images creates problems: we can't change the text, getting same font size for different headers can be annoying, images are disability unfriendly, etc.
 * It's much more flexible using actual text instead of images of text (we can edit the text, change font css, disability friendly, etc). We can make the text stand out more using various css properties, e.g. all caps, text shadow, etc. We can also import a special font to use for the headers – e.g. Orbitron from Google Fonts. (Side note, Wikia allows import of any of the fonts within Google Fonts, but not from other sources ...) An admin would have to edit MediaWiki:Common.css to import a font, thus I can't show this in my sandbox.
 * For my sandbox, since I wanted to change the header texts, I couldn't use the old header images. I put some css together that made the header text stand out, but I didn't actually expect it to be the 'finished' version. So let me know if you have some ideas.
 * Header look:
 * The gradient green and gradient black styles just put an underline under the header text while the transparent style adds a gradient bubble around the header text.
 * I have an alternate transparent style. We could also add a gradient header within the welcome bubble.
 * Currently, all examples use header bubble only with transparent background, but we can do it with colored background, e.g. gradient black background with the gradient green header bubble.
 * Images (regarding version 2):
 * For the slider, I tried to choose images that are different from each other. For the TV series' seasons, I tried to pick something unique or important to each season (e.g. people only live on the Ark in s1, City of Light is only in s3, etc.).
 * However, I didn't have the time to go through all the images (more focused on getting the general main page idea created), so please let me know if you have suggestions.
 * Comments on version 1:
 * Obviously the content of all four bubbles is different from my version.
 * Small details, e.g. unnecessary/useless css, slider outside of a bubble, no spacing between slider and bubbles, font shadowing on the body text within the help-us bubble makes it straining on the eyes, etc.
 * Middle two bubbles: I find it irregular how the book info is mixed into the TV series info. In the "About the Show" bubble, Rebellion's release info is in bold, but books aren't "show" so it doesn't belong there. In the "Content" section, the book info is mixed right in the middle. I find that confusing since none of the content above (character portal, tv series navbox) or below (groups & events navboxes) are related to the books. Since the groups & events navboxes don't specify tv, a new reader may expect those pages to cover book content and not be TV-series only pages.
 * Comments on version 4:
 * Obviously the content of the first & last bubbles is different from my version.
 * Small details, e.g. unnecessary/useless css, slider outside of a bubble, irregular spacing between bubbles, large gap between bubble header & content, random period at start of second line, random content between 3rd & final bubble, irregular capitalization in headers, etc.
 * As far as styling, if we want transparent background, I prefer this version (or this version).

I know TotallyTinkerbell intends to set in stone whatever version wins the above poll, but I'll continue tinkering in my own sandbox for a bit longer. As mentioned on top, none of this influences poll results, this is just for my own tinkering. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers, janus