Board Thread:Jens' Wiki Update Corner/@comment-3271569-20131005175140

With the recent feedback about the current version of the dragon and egg page. I decide that we indeed have to go with certain directions to grand an better overview for our content.

Still this feedback didn't always grand full support. And perfect example was an eggs overview from an related wikia. I figured out this doesn't support the mobile skin so whe wouldn't be able to release an overview like that simply because we would ignore 50% of our users. Something that I really want to prevent.

The example where I'm redirecting to is this w:c:dragonvale:Eggs ( ?useskin=wikiamobile ). I normaly don't give external links but this is the best way to explane this example. An lot of users request something like this. But I just want to explane that is not mobile supported and so can't be used for an default overview.

I also noticed that the mobile devices will not able able to handle all these images cause it to crashload or just make it buggy as hell. Don't forget whe have more dragons than in that example with an way more complex type and species tree with an lot more factors involved.

This doens't mean this can't be solved. With an tabview and an removal of the toggle an lot of things like this can be implemented. With this in mind I think we should keep these tabs open: - Elemental - Hybrid - Rare Hybrid - Legend

But honnestly I think this would be an better direction: - Breedable (elemental/hybrid/rare hybrid/legend >> This inclused exclusive breedable) - Unbreedable (exclusives)

I believe with our currently data and existing dragon 2 subpages would be enouge to cover the slow mobile loading problem and still provides an usefull overviews for our eggs.

So to make it clear:

//Tab 1: Breedable

Legend
//Tab 2: Unbreedable

Legend
-

I believe this change would benefit the function from the egg page and provide the information both pc as mobile users need.

But this is just the first page I suggest an change. The next one is the current Eggs/All page:

I believe this page can be really intressting to figure out the egg you have in your hatchery but I would rather convert this into an PHP tool rather than an regular page. The reason behind this is that I believe it would be possible to support jquery mobile when going into the PHP. Since it was updated with an bot anyway I don't see how it would effect the user. And even if it's not supported for mobile skin you can't blame an tool for not working an every device. Even it's an goal to make it work like that.

We already have an breeding calculator tool and their are plans for an island editor in the future. So I believe it deverves an seperate category and these things can be mentioned in the tutorial pages. These tutorals can also explane how to work with those tools so you can benefit your gameplay with it.

The Eggs tool can also be expand so it also can be used for an dragon overview to benefit this tool ever further.

And last since we can provide an visual overview for the dragons in the eggs tool we don't have to create an special page for this.

Still I think an text overview will still be usefull like we have now. I want to move this into an big template with switch filtering so this content can be used on multiplay pages. We could keep this up-to-date with an bot if we want to.

Well I believe that's all for now. What do you think? 