Thread:Haldarn/@comment-193051-20170529190809/@comment-195370-20170530010318

The layout's looking great on Mobile, Monobook and Oasis (I do think the collapsibility there would be nice too). Really nice job!

What I will say is that Monobook having double the width of Oasis makes it a little sparse. Is it viable/desirable to have four columns of info? Just a thought.

The only thing that doesn't sit well with me is the order of elements on the Item Page as a whole. I'm of the opinion there should be four distinct sections to an item page, the same as what we currently have, but the content of the sections should be arranged slightly differently.

1) Item Qualities - this section begins with the inventory picture of the item and a transcript of the text on that picture. Is it necessary to break lines manually on that transcript? It would be better to restrict the width of the container suitably rather than enter manual breaks. Space for a photo/gallery of the item in-game for those that are visible.

Naturally, the transcript also contains the rare/ex/tmp/aux tags, but I feel this is where we can use similar custom tags with complimentary graphics, such as (the graphic of which is crappy and rushed, sorry), but also includes other innate qualities of the item, as I mentioned elsewhere (more example icons: . Displayed on a row of icons (with appropriate help text), broken into two groups with a space in between (Behaviour ) (Synthesis ) Displayed with text underneath (Economic ) 2) What you can do with an item when you have it (Uses) Subsections: Specifics on usable items, pop spawns, used in synthesis recipes, desynthesis recipe results, etc. 3) How you can get hold of the item (Obtained via) Subsections: Synthesis recipe results, gained from desynthesis, drops, shops, hobbies, special events, etc. 4) Provenance (optional) Where the item gets its name and/or information on an out-of-game version of the item.
 * Stack 1/Stack 12/Stack 99
 * Not Usable/Usable/Also Usable in Mog Garden
 * Ex Undeliverable to Same Account/Ex Deliverable to Same Account
 * Available from Mystery Dial/Not Available from Mystery Dial
 * Can be Crafted/Cannot be Crafted
 * Synthesis Ingredient/Not a Synthesis Ingredient
 * Can be Desynthed/Cannot be Desynthed
 * Obtained From Desynthesis/Not Obtained from Desynthesis
 * Inscribable/Not Inscribable
 * Cannot be auctioned/Auction House location (AH link)
 * Cannot be sold/NPC Sale Price Low|High
 * No Guild Point Value/Guild Point Value + Guild Sale Price Low|High

So the any/all of the four Synthesis sub-headings wouldn't appear at all if the Item Statistics had the respective No Synth icons. If the icons were present, they could provide a jump down to the pertinent section.

I feel the AH location doesn't belong in the 'Obtained via', because firstly it is as much 'Obtained via' as 'Uses' (ie buy and sell), and secondly is a key piece of info that users shouldn't have to scroll down the page to get to.

I think it's also important to have all of the 'Uses' together and before any of the 'Obtained By' subsections. That means for instance that Unity Coffer contents are detailed before the name of the NM the coffer 'drops' from (and yes, they don't drop at all and rather are RoE rewards and yes that was going to be something I was going to correct en-masse once all of the pages were up).

In a multi-column setting, whether it be two or more, each of the four sections mentioned above could have adjacent columns of different subsections, but new adjacencies should start for each section.

I'm also not convinced by the need for the Statistics header. It doesn't provide anything to a user and hence just wastes screen space at the top of the page. I feel that what currently consists Statistics are implicitly inferred by being the base information of the pagename and so can serve as a Lead Section.

Finally, I'm tempted to consider background colour, in the same way that zone pages use them - one pastel colour for each of the four main sections (blue/yellow/red/green) - to tie them together.

Welp, those are my thoughts lol :D