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The main wikibase page needs an alignment tweak:


More of a nit-picking issue, but if you are going to do something, it should be done right.


Also, I noticed that the crop feature for images seems to be less buggy. Thank you.

The errant vendor tags should be cleaned up now.

Another nice feature that could be added in New WoW site 2.0â„¢ would be the ability for a user to pin certain forums in a dropdown. If I only check 4 or 5 forums, why not give me the ability to access those in a quicker fashion?

I'll get that customizable sidebar one way or another

Edited, Jun 3rd 2008 4:18pm by PsiChi

Ok, it may be something on my end. I will doublecheck from home.

I am still bookmarking the post so I can reference it!

The bolding issue is solely something I have at work. I will look at what it is doing with the cookies.

Thank you again for making that change.

The quests by zones.

I preferred your old format for several reasons. First and foremost it was very easy to follow quest chains forward or backward. Secondly, the format it was displayed in allowed the entire zone to be copy and pasted into an excel spreadsheet with just a couple of clicks. I would do this for my characters and then use the spreadsheet to check off quests that had been completed. It made it very easy to find out where I had broken a chain so I could renew it if desired.

Realizing that you prob won't be updating the old quest chain format is there a link you could provide that would allow me to look at the old quest zone format? After all I doubt if the pre BC quests will change very much as far as zones and chains.

Hmmm

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drenden&n=Regineld

compared with my wowsig, compared with what my sig links too...

all 3 are different.

edit:

well a cache dump later and wowsig matches what it links too, but still is wrong.


Edited, Jun 4th 2008 8:13am by KTurner

I am really not impressed. You may have done wonders with the back end to improve performance, but the interface has changed so much that I can't find anything that I'm used to searching for. Drop down menus may be loverly for some people, but I found it much easier having all the info visible on the page I was looking at. Please give us the option of using a static menu on the left side.
I'll give this a go for a few weeks, but I suspect I will be canceling my subscription and finding somewhere else to get the info I need :(((

I figured it out...

When I click on the arrow to take me to the last post, the thread does not toggle to "read"
When I click on the thread title, then it will toggle.

The new site looks good, but is missing some features I'd like to see carried over from the old one. One such feature being when viewing zone information, you could view quest reward items. I did not see that in the Feralas section I was just looking it. It did list xp, gold, and rep rewards, but nowhere did I see equipment rewards shown.

Edit for clarification: I realize when you click on a specific quest you can view the rewards, but it was nice to be able to view all the quests and see the item reward. Also, the ITEM tab only lists quest specific items, and does not show drops or quest rewards associated with that area.

Edited, Jun 4th 2008 4:58pm by Xizervexius

I am not seeing a "Mark all as read" button. Can that be added?

Another couple of tweaks that could be made to the wiki side of things...

1) Add an option from the preview page to save the changes there. It's not a bad setup at all right now, but anything to reduce page clicks is generally a good thing. Preview > backbutton > Save isn't very intuitive.

2) On the page (http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html#Instance), consider altering the 40man instance colors to something other than FF0000. This is the same red that is now used for "redlinks" on wiki pages, and may confuse some users (or us bored people who are spamming the wiki with new content! /highfives the others!)

3) On the wiki FAQs page (http://wow.allakhazam.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions) in the ordered lists section (this is a locked wiki page):
In the first part, it should say "Hash Mark-Asterisks" rather than "Hard Mark". In the second part, the "* Aserisks and #* Asterisk-Hash Marks" should be "*Asterisks and *# Asterisk-Hash Mark" (Note both the correction of the first "Asterisks" as well as the order change with the asterisk and hash mark).

4) Quests page (http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/questlist.html for example)
a) Add a "Both" to the filter dropdown for Side
b) Apply sorted to entire Datagrid, rather than just current page. (I'm sure this would entail much more backend work than a simple edit/addition, due to that mostly, it would just be a "Nice to have" feature.
c) When you click on "Add..." to add a tag to filter by, there is no way to then remove that extra drop down.

5) The "Your Charaters" page, it would be "Nice to have" a way to delete single (and multiple) associated characters from there. After awhile using WoW reader, my list is full of deleted alts and characters I had no intention of ever uploading.

6) (This is a big one in my opinion). Using WoW Mob:Void Reaver for example, should remove the "Heroic" tab for all instances that are not able to be done in heroic mode. This can give a huge misconception that these instances are available to be run in heroic mode, especially considering that loot is tied to that datagrid. You have this hidden on some old world pages WoW Mob:Deathsworn Captain for example. WoW Mob: Lady Vashj is an example of an BC mob with no heroic tab, and WoW Mob:Twilight Lord Kelris is an example of an old world mobb with a heroic tab. This would likely be a fairly intense project for a user to undertake, having to click on every single instance mob, checking to see if it has the proper tabs.

7) Image preview page is missing it's content background ( http://wow.allakhazam.com/Im/preview? ). There are a few other pages like this, and I'll have to go through and find them again, if I do, I'll edit them into this post.

Edited, Jun 5th 2008 5:05pm by cafeenoftheazurestorm