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Going on to the actual discussion, I personally came to love the idea of portals. I think they quickly promote the very foundation of the wiki: the games. They were originally presented as category portals, but I do find those ineffective. As for the draft, I'm still testing layouts. I want to move Community Events up, but that pushes Featured Media to the bottom, which I don't think we want to do either. Again, I'm still testing out how to best sort the layout. Of course, I'm open to any suggestions. As far as a third column. I feel we could do it. There is one problem. I checked out the wiki from a visitor's point of view (thank you, Incognito) and found that the Home Page is plagued in advertisements (I wouldn't know that because of my ad-blocker). The Main Page is thus reduced in space in comparison to my draft page. So, three columns would be rather squished. However, I am willing to try it out. Regarding Traverse Town, I feel we need to determine where the sections we're removing from the Main Page are going to go in Traverse Town. I know, it sounds like I'm pushing for the other project at the same time. But, if we determine where these sections will go (namely, Current Happenings, Command Board, and Helping Out), we can use the Traverse Town section not only to supply that information, but also to advertise the entire Community Portal. And trust me, Traverse Town is in dire need of traffic. I personally feel they do best in the First District. Right now, the draft has links all over Traverse Town because of the way the [[Forum:MegaProject: Arise - Traverse Town Project|<font color=#FFFFFF>discussion</font>]] has gone. But I feel that pages and information related to new users and help should be in the First District. That way, new users start in the First District, similar to how Sora started in the First District in the game. Thus, the section related to Traverse Town on the Main Page will have links to areas in the First District, rather than all over the place. Any other thoughts? Additions?}}
Going on to the actual discussion, I personally came to love the idea of portals. I think they quickly promote the very foundation of the wiki: the games. They were originally presented as category portals, but I do find those ineffective. As for the draft, I'm still testing layouts. I want to move Community Events up, but that pushes Featured Media to the bottom, which I don't think we want to do either. Again, I'm still testing out how to best sort the layout. Of course, I'm open to any suggestions. As far as a third column. I feel we could do it. There is one problem. I checked out the wiki from a visitor's point of view (thank you, Incognito) and found that the Home Page is plagued in advertisements (I wouldn't know that because of my ad-blocker). The Main Page is thus reduced in space in comparison to my draft page. So, three columns would be rather squished. However, I am willing to try it out. Regarding Traverse Town, I feel we need to determine where the sections we're removing from the Main Page are going to go in Traverse Town. I know, it sounds like I'm pushing for the other project at the same time. But, if we determine where these sections will go (namely, Current Happenings, Command Board, and Helping Out), we can use the Traverse Town section not only to supply that information, but also to advertise the entire Community Portal. And trust me, Traverse Town is in dire need of traffic. I personally feel they do best in the First District. Right now, the draft has links all over Traverse Town because of the way the [[Forum:MegaProject: Arise - Traverse Town Project|<font color=#FFFFFF>discussion</font>]] has gone. But I feel that pages and information related to new users and help should be in the First District. That way, new users start in the First District, similar to how Sora started in the First District in the game. Thus, the section related to Traverse Town on the Main Page will have links to areas in the First District, rather than all over the place. Any other thoughts? Additions?}}
{{KeybladeSpyMaster|time=04:42, 24 June 2014 (UTC)|TRON=Here's an idea about the game portals we could implement. The [http://www.zeldawiki.org <font color=#FFFFFF>Zelda Wiki</font>] has hover frames for each game, and that lists some important links related to the game. What do you guys think? Would it be something we would want to do? I've seen the coding, and it doesn't look too hard to implement.}}