Forum:Main Page Slider

I think a main page slider for this wiki's main page could be a good idea. What do you think, do you like the idea or not? Here is the slider below:


 * I love the idea, maybe instead of linking it to the series it could be changed every week to show the latest episode. On another note, a slider could be used for spin off media in general, with a slide for the latest novel, audio play etc. --Revan\Talk 10:50, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course. It can be changed every week, as that is such a brilliant idea. It will be constantly updated. When you say a slider could be used for spin off media in general, that could take up a lot of space, because main page sliders are quite big, so I don't know if that is possible. But good idea though! Cortion 10:58, June 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm not a big fan. It serves little purpose other than being eye-catching. If you go to Template:Doctor Who Wiki/Slider, you can see this was attempted before. Read User:CzechOut's development notes on that page. Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:09, June 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * Well I think it's a brilliant idea. That attempt shown before, (not to be rude) was quite rubbish. This slider is gleaming with style. Cortion 11:23, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

What a ridiculous statement. It's the same thing with different pictures, and of course you think its brilliant, it's you idea. It's just not practical. The main page is fantastic as it is. It's go info a-plenty and interesting features. This little scroll box is just another piece of tack that looks fancy, but does next to nothing. Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:27, June 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think it's a really good idea, it's a much smarter, up-to-date and much better looking eay for presenting the information. However, the major downfall is that we have a large variety of information on the home page, which should, or needs to be displayed. We have, television, audio, comic and prose novels and we have no idea what to present in the slider. It is a ridiculous idea to present random articles this way of the main page and we can't present the "lastest" of each different kind of story, i.e last comic, audio etc in one slider, as we have many different types of these stories. Mini-mitch\talk 11:35, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

Information? It has four links with a sentence for each. Yes, it looks good, but it isn't an improvement for what is essentially an encyclopaedia. Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:37, June 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't take offense that Cortion thinks the previous attempt looked rubbish. It wasn't meant to look great.  It was a test of the technology only.  This looks better because you've used pictures that run against our image policy.  You're using publicity photos here, which are always going to look better than screenshots.


 * But the problem isn't how good the pics look. The problem is that we're limited to four images.  We can't fairly represent the content of this wiki with only four images.  And were this on the front page, we'd be committing ourselves to having to change it weekly.


 * Another problem is that everybody and their mother is using this slider thing on their front page on Wikia wikis. Our front page is unique.  I'm not saying the front page can't be improved.  It's been the way it is for a year; it probably is time for some kind of change.  But we need things that a) don't require more than about monthly maintenance and b) can show off the diversity of the DWU, not just the latest episode.


 * Oh, and to answer Revan and Mini-mitch's point upthread, sliders can't be used to represent other media. They require widescreen images, and there's no such thing as a widescreen image of books, magazines, comics or CDs.  (Well, I suppose it could take the image from an interior comic strip, but that would usually be less helpful, and more work, than a cover.)   11:50:26 Fri 03 Jun 2011

Yeah, I like the uniqueness of the main page as well and four images really isn't enough to show the range of our content. Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:57, June 3, 2011 (UTC)