TRUE STORY: A few weeks ago, in school coincidentally, I was using up some of my down time editing some things on my YouTube Channel. At the same time, I was thinking about Bulbapedia for some reason and then it hit me: Bulbapedia needs a new GUI DESPERATELY! So my idea was this: On Usertag pages and color template pages, there will be a new “Add to userpage” button if it is not already there. If it is, it would be replaced with a “Remove from userpage” button, which would automatically enable an editing session on the user's userpage. On the userpage during an editing session, users would have the ability to move usertags around by clicking and dragging them to where they want them to be. They would also have the ability to modify their text, font(s), font size(s), font color(s), font style(s), background color(s), outline color, shape, and the picture displayed in the usertag. This feature would be accessed via a wrench icon that appears next to the usertag on mouse-over. To edit color templates, instead of having to enter the correct color code, a color palette similar to the one in Microsoft Paint would appear. All of these customizations would be made via a window that would appear when an edit is being made to the area.
Advantages/Disadvantages: This would remove all of the confusion caused by the complicated wikicode that the new GUI runs over, similar to how Windows Explorer runs over MS-DOS. This would make editing a userpage much simpler and more fun, as well as much quicker. On the other hand, a new GUI might bog down the new Bulbapedia servers, but look at the bright side: If it does work out in the end, it would be a great way to test their limits! Also, users that have been used to typing in the wikicode will inevitably have to adapt to the new GUI, whether they like it or not. To solve this, I thought of a "GUI Settings" section in the "Preferences" area, which would let users choose whether they wanted to use the new GUI or the old one.
Since I am not a web developer myself in any way, shape, or forme, I'd need all the help I could get from EXPERT web developers to help design this, if I can get enough people on Bulbapedia to agree on a new GUI, although since this is MY idea, I'd be the one who would call the shots of the new GUI Design Project, with a second-in-command appearing later on, after everyone that wants to help out the cause has joined the Project. This project would keep Bulbapedia and its GUI "moving with the times" and more popular on the Internet. So I need YOUR opinion: Is this a good idea or not, and why do you think the way you do? Also, do you think this would work, run, and function properly after most of the designing is done, and why do you think so or not? You don't have to answer if you don't want to, but I highly recommend it. You know, just so that I can get some feedback and input from others. If you do choose to respond to this, put your answer to the first question, your answer to the second question, or your answers to both questions in your comment. Thanks!
~N Studios 2012
Advantages/Disadvantages: This would remove all of the confusion caused by the complicated wikicode that the new GUI runs over, similar to how Windows Explorer runs over MS-DOS. This would make editing a userpage much simpler and more fun, as well as much quicker. On the other hand, a new GUI might bog down the new Bulbapedia servers, but look at the bright side: If it does work out in the end, it would be a great way to test their limits! Also, users that have been used to typing in the wikicode will inevitably have to adapt to the new GUI, whether they like it or not. To solve this, I thought of a "GUI Settings" section in the "Preferences" area, which would let users choose whether they wanted to use the new GUI or the old one.
Since I am not a web developer myself in any way, shape, or forme, I'd need all the help I could get from EXPERT web developers to help design this, if I can get enough people on Bulbapedia to agree on a new GUI, although since this is MY idea, I'd be the one who would call the shots of the new GUI Design Project, with a second-in-command appearing later on, after everyone that wants to help out the cause has joined the Project. This project would keep Bulbapedia and its GUI "moving with the times" and more popular on the Internet. So I need YOUR opinion: Is this a good idea or not, and why do you think the way you do? Also, do you think this would work, run, and function properly after most of the designing is done, and why do you think so or not? You don't have to answer if you don't want to, but I highly recommend it. You know, just so that I can get some feedback and input from others. If you do choose to respond to this, put your answer to the first question, your answer to the second question, or your answers to both questions in your comment. Thanks!
~N Studios 2012