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== Set header/Infoboxes ==
It may be just me, but I think some of the old templates are looking a little dated, for example the set header and the infoboxes used in most of our articles. [[User:NovaFlare/Set_header|This]] is just an idea of some changes {{C|and I don't know why the right-hand side of the old set header isn't showing up there, it does everywhere else :S}}. For the set header, instead of the blue gradient, we could alternately go with the background color based on the theme (like bottom background color of the infobox). For the set header:
* The white background is just looking a bit sparse to me, a background might help
* I think we need to ditch the LEGO logo on the side, it doesn't seem to quite fit with the template
For the infobox:
* I think the width, image size, and the way the content is presented is ideal, I don't think we should be messing with it
* The black borders aren't doing it for me though. I think a less strong border (a grey shown in the example) works a bit better. And I've removed the black lines between the cells as they seem to make the infobox look a bit chunky, and instead gone with alternating colours, between the specified background color based on the theme and white (which should go with everything).
* Added some rounded corners in at the bottom, it just looked like it could do with some. I didn't add them to the top, because it didn't look suitable for an infobox (kind of made it look like a bubble instead of a box or something)
Anwyay, let me know what you think, suggest any changes, or make your own designs :) {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 05:33, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
**Infobox looks great. Love it. Not sure about the gradient or rounded corners on the set header though. Maybe smaller border radii would work, but I'm not sure. --[[User:ToaMeiko|ToaMeiko]] ([[User talk:ToaMeiko|talk]]) 11:12, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
*** I was wondering that myself, just tried it at 10px, I think it looks better {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 19:33, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
*I like the header and infobox, except for the alternating colors. I just may not be used to them though, and I didn't like the black lines anyway. :P [[User:Berrybrick|Berrybrick]] ([[User talk:Berrybrick|talk]]) 12:10, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
** Yeah, it is a bit of a change :) Just my opinion, but I think having the alternating rows helps to break up the content in the way that the black lines used to, so there's no chance of accidentally reading something like Item No: June 2013 {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 19:33, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
* I just tried it with the LOTR colours since the it's now based on a LOTR set (see the second infobox) and it looks pretty awful to me. So we may have to look at lightening up some of the colours (is the third example any better?) {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 19:46, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
:*(The brown makes the white sort of jarring.) [[User:Berrybrick|Berrybrick]] ([[User talk:Berrybrick|talk]]) 21:06, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
::* Well, I could make it even paler, or we could maybe introduce a third colour? :S {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 21:47, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
**It looks awesome! Not liking the gradient on the top header because it looks too dark. Maybe make it brighter? Other than that I like the ideas or round edges. Good work. --[[User:CM4Sci|CM4Sci]] ([[User talk:CM4Sci|talk]]) 22:35, 14 October 2013 (EDT)
*** Thanks :) I'll take a look at making it lighter when I get more time, problem with making it too much lighter is it might make the white text hard to read {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 01:55, 15 October 2013 (EDT)
*Not a huge fan of the gradient on the set header (looks a little naff to me), but I do like the improvements to the infobox. [[User:UltrasonicNXT|UltrasonicNXT]] ([[User talk:UltrasonicNXT|talk]])
** I was originally going to do with a grey (see example page now), I don't know if that's any better. Or, as stated above, it could be made to be the same colour as one of the theme colours {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 19:09, 15 October 2013 (EDT)
* Just a note with the issue with the contast between the alternating colours, what I'll do is code it so that the alternate colour is lighter by #202020 (or, if that's not possible for a certain colour, #202020 darker) {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 05:15, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
*I'd agree with pretty much everyone above. Everything looks great, except the gradient header. :) [[User:Drew1200|Drew1200]] ([[User talk:Drew1200|talk]])
===Update===
* Ok, so I've gone ahead and added the new code to the infobox, see [[User:NovaFlare/Set_header]] for an example. Some colours will end up needing to be changed over from a colour name (like orchid) to a hex value so one of the templates work, but that's no big deal. So what do we want for the Set header? (I've ruled out the gradient one). Blue, grey, or the same colour at the title field in the infobox?{{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 22:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
;Use light blue
;Use dark blue
# Make it a slightly more dark blue and less cyan, like the background of the wiki and the center of the header bar on refreshed. Then I'd be good with it. It'd be cool if on Refreshed, it could be sort of "attached" to the header bar, essentially just positioned so it's right beneath the header and in a fixed position. --[[User:ToaMeiko|ToaMeiko]] ([[User talk:ToaMeiko|talk]]) 03:02, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
#: I've made up a dark blue one based on that colour, and will work on a fixed position one ([[User:NovaFlare/Set header/refreshed|link]]). I'm not sure if it'll work on Deep Sea (I can't test it since we still don't have it back), but obviously it's easy to make the colour scheme/positioning skin specific. {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 06:19, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
;Use grey
;Use title colour
*Well, depends on the colour really XD [[User:CJC95|CJC95]] ([[User talk:CJC95|talk]]) 12:43, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
==Rating icons==
The rating icons are looking a bit out of place too, so I made some new ones: http://www.majhost.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=281678 Any thoughts would be appreciated. [[User:MtMNC|MtMNC]] ([[User talk:MtMNC|talk]]) 16:37, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
* Those look great! AC/AR, UC/UR and FC/FR are mixed up in the file names (Green is for '''R'''eviews, Red is for '''C'''ustoms) , but design-wise they look excellent. --[[User:ToaMeiko|ToaMeiko]] ([[User talk:ToaMeiko|talk]]) 20:02, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
::Alright, I've fixed the file names. [[User:MtMNC|MtMNC]] ([[User talk:MtMNC|talk]]) 21:11, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
:* The only thing I'm not quite a fan of is the c1 and FA ratings being the same colour since they're different levels, but otherwise no complaints, they're looking good to me :) {{User:NovaFlare/sig}} 08:59, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
::*I've made the blue on FA darker ([http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Infra-Red/Images/Brickimedia/rating-fa.png link]). Would it be okay for me to start replacing the icons, or should I wait a bit first? [[User:MtMNC|MtMNC]] ([[User talk:MtMNC|talk]]) 17:46, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
:::*Wait until we have image imports going smoothly. --[[User:ToaMeiko|ToaMeiko]] ([[User talk:ToaMeiko|talk]]) 18:10, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
::::*You can probably import them now. The Brickipedia import is done, so whatever the file names are on the wiki currently, feel free to upload your new version to those locations. --[[User:ToaMeiko|ToaMeiko]] ([[User talk:ToaMeiko|talk]]) 20:44, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
==LEGO Icon Font==
I was looking at the new videos page on the LEGO site and I noticed it uses a custom icon font ([http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Infra-Red/Images/Brickimedia/legoicons.png here's] a sampling of the glyphs generated by Font Book, there might be more as well). Do you think any of these could be useful? [[User:MtMNC|MtMNC]] ([[User talk:MtMNC|talk]]) 19:48, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
* Those are cool. No idea what they could be used for yet, but if you could get the font, you could add it to /resources/fonts in the [//github.com/Brickimedia/splash splash] repo on GitHub so that they can be used later. :) It would be awesome if we could find a use for some of them. --[[User:ToaMeiko|ToaMeiko]] ([[User talk:ToaMeiko|talk]]) 23:06, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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