Thread:Forum:Tech Wishlist And Bug Reports/Condense the subpage links/reply (24)

I basically agree with all of User:Arromdee's criticisms, but hadn't had the time to fix things. Well, that's now changed. I designed a new system and it's awesome, and it will be deployed as soon as the CSS refreshes.

Features:
 * Back to small icons and text, because I was never a fan of the MS Office ribbon
 * (maybe too small, but that can be changed later)
 * Images load as sprites, which means faster overall page load times
 * Only subpages that actually exist are listed
 * Any subpages of those subpages will show as a dropdown menu (e.g. individual episodes will show when you hover over Recap)
 * Crowning moments are collapsed into a similar dropdown.
 * Remaining subpages get their own menu
 * Pages that don't exist yet are under a Create New menu
 * But are linked via JS, so they don't count as actual redlinks, thus compacting our database and making Special:WantedPages more useful.
 * Is generally made of awesome.

Anyway, User:QuestionableSanity made some good art, but it's just too big. And having the text in the pictures is not great for accessibility. If they could downsize, I'd use some of them, but making sprite-sized art is a totally different field. We may not settle with 16px as my new version does -- we might want 24 or even 32px. But this is very much the world of the small, where normal photoshop rules don't apply. We can change the appearance later, because it's pretty much all CSS on top of the current Subpages.

Anyway, I don't want navigation to dominate the content -- or to be ignored entirely as looking like a banner ad. Also, my new system is awesome, did I mention that?