Complete Redesign of D&D 5E Info Page!

Morrus · Apr 20, 2012

There's a brand new version of the D&D Next Info Page up. Re-organised, categorised, and paginated!

The old one is still there for now, though I'll be updating the new page from now on.

tuxgeo · Apr 21, 2012

In the 'son-of-black' skin, the "Important Links" title vanishes into white, as do a few of the bullet points, presumably because they are font color="white".

GuJiaXian · Apr 21, 2012

To be blunt, I don't like it as much. I used to be able to load one page and just scroll to find the new information. Now I have to click a series of links and wait for them all to load.

GX.Sigma · Apr 21, 2012

Why is it spread across different pages? If it was done in a wikipedia style (e.g., there's a "themes" page that lists everything we know about themes, and links to other pages), that would make some sense. As is, spreading a linear document across multiple web pages just makes it annoying.

Morrus · Apr 21, 2012

GuJiaXian said:
To be blunt, I don't like it as much. I used to be able to load one page and just scroll to find the new information. Now I have to click a series of links and wait for them all to load.

Becuase it was getting so long that editing it in the vBulletin style editor took absolutely ages. Just scrolling through the html to find the right section to edit would take ten minutes.

GX.Sigma said:
Why is it spread across different pages? If it was done in a wikipedia style (e.g., there's a "themes" page that lists everything we know about themes, and links to other pages), that would make some sense. As is, spreading a linear document across multiple web pages just makes it annoying.

Everything we know about themes.

Morrus · Apr 21, 2012

tuxgeo said:
In the 'son-of-black' skin, the "Important Links" title vanishes into white, as do a few of the bullet points, presumably because they are font color="white".

Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't have a per-style colour editor, so I need to think of text colour which look good on black and white backgrounds.

On Puget Sound · Apr 21, 2012

is there an easy way to tell which sections have anything new (i.e. a "last update" date in the title)?

howandwhy99 · Apr 21, 2012

Thank you for this. Breaking stuff up into smaller portions for reading means I can check back on things much more easily.

As for constructive criticism, the Articles section could probably use a little more breaking up. It kind of runs together for me unlike the 1.2.3 3rd section drill down portions.

Also, a lot of the material hyperlinks to blog posts and articles over at Wizards. Would it be overly repetitive or perhaps laborious to list and link these in the Articles section too? Wizard's archive overview of them isn't as handy imo.

Morrus · Apr 21, 2012

howandwhy99 said:
Also, a lot of the material hyperlinks to blog posts and articles over at Wizards. Would it be overly repetitive or perhaps laborious to list and link these in the Articles section too? Wizard's archive overview of them isn't as handy imo.

That's too much work to add for me, but it's a wiki - so if anybody wants to do that, they can.