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Although this page is all pretty, I do not believe it matches the coloring of the rest of the Wiki. It also is rather difficult for the average user to edit this page due to all the boxes created in Wikitext. Both of these are major issues in my opinion [[User:Thomas Lerman|Thomas_Lerman]] 23:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC) | Although this page is all pretty, I do not believe it matches the coloring of the rest of the Wiki. It also is rather difficult for the average user to edit this page due to all the boxes created in Wikitext. Both of these are major issues in my opinion [[User:Thomas Lerman|Thomas_Lerman]] 23:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC) | ||
:I don't think the boxes are any more difficult than tables. In fact, I think they are easier to use, but that's just me. Are we assuming all the colors throughout the Wiki are supposed to blend or be the same coloring throughout the Wiki? I'm unaware of any style guidelines related to this concern. If the guidelines exist, they should be documented in the Manual of Style. --[[User:JensenFA|Fran]] 23:43, 11 March 2010 (UTC) | :I don't think the boxes are any more difficult than tables. In fact, I think they are easier to use, but that's just me. Are we assuming all the colors throughout the Wiki are supposed to blend or be the same coloring throughout the Wiki? I'm unaware of any style guidelines related to this concern. If the guidelines exist, they should be documented in the Manual of Style. --[[User:JensenFA|Fran]] 23:43, 11 March 2010 (UTC) | ||
::To edit a box, one MUST go to Wikitext. As soon as someone needs to do that, I believe we would loose the average user. No guideline exists on coloring, I would like we would want to choose from certain color palettes instead of colors that do not really match or putting up a rainbow. Maybe we should have a discussion on this. [[User: | ::To edit a box, one MUST go to Wikitext. As soon as someone needs to do that, I believe we would loose the average user. No guideline exists on coloring, I would like we would want to choose from certain color palettes instead of colors that do not really match or putting up a rainbow. Maybe we should have a discussion on this. [[User:Thomas Lerman|Thomas_Lerman]] 00:34, 12 March 2010 (UTC) | ||
==== What is the compelling reason for forcing wikitext editing? ==== | |||
Is there a compelling reason why this page has been rendered more complicated to edit than a normal page? The reason I ask is that I just tried to edit this page, and it was ''not'' a good experience. I strongly dislike being forced to go into wikitext view to edit content because I am unable to discern code from content quickly. Basically, when I'm forced to go into wikitext view to edit, it wastes a lot of my time because I am forced to slog through a bunch of code that I'm not interested in editing to get to the content that I actually want to edit. I honestly think there are two kinds of people -- those who don't mind operating in a screen full of code and those to whom a screen full of code is distracting to the point of agony. I am the latter type. I think there are more people like me than there are of the type who don't mind slogging through code. If most people liked to operate in code-clouded screens, MS Word wouldn't have blown away WordPerfect by offering the first PC-based WYSIWYG word processor, and Microsoft wouldn't have bothered to follow Apple into the world of the Graphical User Interface. I feel the same way about this page's overcomplication of editing that I felt about [[Edit and Contribute|Edit and Contribute]] when it, too, forced users to go into code view to edit it. What am I failing to understand? Why is it necessary to render this page harder to edit? Why is it necessary to force users to enter wikitext mode to edit? [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 00:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC) | |||
==== The many colors are confusing to those seeking meaning ==== | |||
P.S. I also find the several colors distracting. I mean, we could make every word on a wiki page a different color, but what's the point? Some people who are visual learners are distracted by too many colors, so when a designer asks himself whether some page element should be a different color, a good question to ask is "What am I trying to achieve by setting this off in a different color?" If everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted. If everything is colorful, nothing stands out. If every heading has a different color, it can confuse the reader who tries to figure out what's important (and therefore which color is most important). [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 00:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1275353238453_896" /> | |||
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