User:FeralKitty/Sandbox/Navigation
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To do
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Drop down navigation(done) -
(New two-column layout for main page)(done)-
Consider article ToC column on main page?(done)
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FAQ(done) and MiniFAQs)-
Merge or maintain separate FAQs by game?Merge. (done) -
Move game-specific MiniFAQS into tabs or visually identify by game?Identify by game.
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- Categories
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Xbox 360 Game -> Classic(done) - New Viva Pinata category as top level for ToC, other categories?
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- Jump-to navigation?
Dropdown per game
- Pro: Avoid Games, down and right, down. Saves two movements.
- Con: Not normalized. Menu grows wider if new games are added
To do
- Conditionally load javascript only if needed (i.e., lt IE7)
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Don't display menus on mobile devices.(done, menu is dismissible) -
Necessary to ever hide lists (i.e., won't display nicely)? -
Check z-order vs. articles with youtube videos(done) -
Would be nice to order content before menus for search results.(done, javascript not spidered)
Trouble in Paradise is a popular landing page, and also gets navigated to often. We should consider turning that(/each) game's article into a portal, helping visitors find information more easily, since they probably already play the game and are looking for more than general information. (done)
| Fall 2006: | Viva Pinata first starts as a TV show (now available on DVD), |
| Winter 2006: | ... and its popular Classic game for the Xbox 360. |
| Fall 2007: | Xbox 360 fans get a spin-off party game called Party Animals, and Windows gamers get to play Classic on their PC. |
| Fall 2008: | Xbox 360 fans get Trouble in Paradise, the sequel to Classic, and Nintendo DS fans enjoy Pocket Paradise, an enhanced version of Classic. |
| Trouble in Paradise | | FAQ | | Species | | Piñata Vision | | P-Factor | | Couch Social |
MediaWiki.org uses this in their documentation (e.g., Installation guide, technical guide).
Jump-to navigation helps users travel from one article to other related articles. The navigation would vary, depending on the topic, and some articles might not have jump-to navigation. We already use it (in a see-also format) in a few places (e.g. Category:Species).
In a sense, the navigation brings the "pages in the category" details (e.g., Category:Trouble in Paradise with minor omissions) to each page.
Considerations
- Consider using (existing see-also format or jump-to) navigation on more articles, to help visitors easily get to other related articles.
- Consider switching from a see-also text format to a more visual layout, to make the navigation stand out, and be distinct from the article.
- Con: Jump-to tables and tabs might visually conflict.
- Con: More likely to stretch the screen at low resolutions.
- Con: Jump-to can't clearly spell out (as catmore currently does) that there is a category article with more information:
- For more information, see Species.
Examples
Species categories and their category articles
| Species | | Classic species | | Trouble in Paradise species | | Pocket Paradise species |
Hybrid using catmore and jump-to
- For more information, see Species.
| Classic species | | Trouble in Paradise species | | Pocket Paradise species |
Trouble in Paradise articles, text format
A - Z
- Category:Aquatic
- Category:Aquatic plants
- Category:Arctic
- Category:Arctic plants
- Category:Bushes
- Category:Cast
- Category:Challenge Events
- Category:Classic
- Category:Classic plants
- Category:Classic species
- Category:Commonly asked questions
- Category:Cryptid
- Category:Desert
- Category:Desert plants
- Category:Domestic
- Category:Evolved
- Category:Flowers
- Category:Flying
- Category:Gameplay
- Category:Gameplay Tips
- Category:Garden Piece
- Category:Helper
- Category:Merchandise
- Category:Nocturnal
- Category:Party Animals
- Category:Piñata Vision image
- Category:Plants
- Category:Pocket Paradise
- Category:Pocket Paradise plants
- Category:Pocket Paradise screenshot
- Category:Pocket Paradise species
- Category:Produce
- Category:Sour
- Category:Species
- Category:Stubs
- Category:Style guidelines
- Category:Television Series
- Category:Tip of the day
- Category:To do
- Category:Tool
- Category:Trees
- Category:Trouble in Paradise
- Category:Trouble in Paradise plants
- Category:Trouble in Paradise species
- Category:Vegetables
- Category:Viva Piñata episodes
- Category:Viva Piñata episodes with Gameplay Tips
- Category:Weeds
- Category:Xbox 360 Game
By game
Navigation approaches
Popular article column (subset of articles for a topic)(done)- Topical index? A-Z? Featured on (Wikipedia) Main Page
- Dropdown/flyout menus
Organizing pages by "topic" so we can see how/where they'd fit in to the different approaches. Topic names are arbitrary and can be refined later. Some articles belong to different topics/games but are generally listed once for now. Redirects to be removed next pass.
General
Businesses
Licensing, merchandise, developers, producers
- 4Kids Entertainment
- 4Kids TV
- 4Sight Licensing Solutions
- 4sight licensing solutions
- American Greetings
- American Greetings Corporation
- Bardel Entertainment
- Burger King
- Burger King Toys
- Burger King toys
- Climax Group
- DecoPac
- Faceplate
- Rubie's
- Krome Studios
- Krome Studios Pty. Ltd.
- Marketing partnerships
- Merchandise
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Game Studios
- Playmates Toys
- Playmates Toys, Inc.
- Rare
- Rare Ltd.
- Rare® Ltd.
- Rare® Ltd.
- THQ
- The CW Television Network
- Unique Industries
- YTV
Games
- ESRB Rating
- Family Pack
- Games for Windows
- Games for Windows - LIVE
- Viva Piñata: Classic
- Viva Piñata: Party Animals
- Viva Piñata Classic
- Viva Piñata for PC
- Viva Piñata for Windows
- Viva Piñata on Nintendo DS
Classic
- Atsumare! Piñata
- Classic Wild-card Hall of Fame
- List of Viva Piñata: Classic plants
- List of Viva Piñata: Classic species
- Viva Piñata: Classic
Trouble in Paradise
- Amber gem
- Bait bag
- Blocked species
- Bone
- Bouncer Board
- Camera
- Combat medal
- Couch Social
- Credits -> Wishing Well
- Dessert Desert
- Famous piñata
- Gallery of special Piñata Vision images
- Giant Goobaa
- Golf
- List of Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise plants
- List of Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise species
- Just for Fun
- Langston's Destination Challenges
- Magic
- P-Factor
- Pinata Paperchase
- Piñarctic
- Piñata Vision
- Seed pouch
- Store House
- Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
Pocket Paradise
- Birthday cake
- List of Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise plants
- List of Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise species
- Piñata Pyramid
- Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise
Party Animals
- Achievements (popular articles)
- Challenge events
- Championship Challenge
- Racetracks
- All articles
Gameplay
- Gameplay
- Accessories
- Achievements
- Awards
- Candiosity
- Candiosity Meter
- Candy
- Candy coin
- Cannoñata
- Character
- Characters
- Cheat codes
- Cheats
- Cocoon
- Crate
- Currency
- DLC
- Day and night cycle
- Encyclopaedia
- Encyclopedia
- Evolution
- Evolve
- Evolved
- Fertilizer
- Garden
- Garden Value
- Happiness Rating
- Happy Candy
- Happy candy
- Journal
- Joy Candy
- Joy Sweet
- Joy candy
- Label
- Label Designer
- Level
- Levels
- Life stages
- Master romancer
- Nocturnal
- Party
- Party Central
- Pinata
- Pinata Central
- Pinata Island
- Pinata Island Info
- Pinata by Value
- Pinata factory
- Pinata island
- Pinatas
- Pinometer
- Pinometers
- Piñata
- Piñata Central
- Piñata Factory
- Piñata Island
- Piñata Yada Yada
- Piñata garden
- Piñatameter
- Plant
- Plants
- Rank
- Ranks
- Romance
- Romance Candy
- Romance Dance
- Romance Sweet
- Romance candy
- Romance dance
- Romancer
- Romancing
- Rumor
- Rumors
- Rumours
- Sick Candy
- Sickness
- Sour
- Sours
- Sour Blocker
- Sour pinatas
- Sour piñatas
- Species
- Stages
- Sweets value
- Tag
- Totem segment
- Totem segments
- Tower of Sour
- Tower of sour
- Transform
- Transformation
- Transformed
- Tree
- Trees
- Twin
- Twin Value
- Twin value
- Twins
- Value
- Value (Pinata)
- Value (Piñata)
- Variant
- Variants
- Weather
- Weed
- Weeds
- Wild-card
- Wild Pinata
- Wildcard
- Wild-card Hall of Fame
Concepts
Garden items
Group produce, tinkered items for now
- Garden pieces
- Amber gem
- Birdbath
- Bone
- Bottle of medicine
- Bottle of milk
- Bread
- Captain Blackeye
- Captains cutlass
- Cutlass
- Diamond
- Firebrand
- Honey
- Honey hive
- House
- Housing
- Jack 'o Lantern
- Jack o' Lantern
- Jack o' lantern
- Jack o lantern
- Mine
- Mine workings
- Mushroom
- Mushrooms
- Mystery house
- Mystery seed
- Peanut Butter
- Produce
- Rainbow
- Red eye rainbow
- Ruby
- Spectral Locomotive
- Statues
- Toadstool
- Tombstone
- Water waiver
Tips, strategies, answers
- Attracting new species
- Commonly asked questions
- Demo FAQ
- Designer Asian garden
- Designer pirate garden
- Designing your garden
- Easy money
- Frequently Asked Questions
- General Information (Game)
- Glitch
- Glitches
- Gossip
- Hints
- How to
- Leafos log
- Player Guide System
- Prima Strategy Guide
- Printable Pinata Guides
- Reluctance to Return
- Reluctance to return
- Taming sour pinatas
- Taming sour piñatas
- Tending your plants
Characters
- Dastardos
- Diggerling
- Family members
- Gatherling
- Helper
- Helpers
- Jardiniero
- Leafos
- Lester (Professor Pester)
- Pester
- Professor Pester
- Ruffian
- Ruffians
- Seedos
- Storkos
- Weedling
- Watchling
Shops/Shopkeepers
- Arfur's Inn
- Bart
- Bart's Exchange
- Costalot
- Costolot
- Doc
- Doc Patchingo
- Fanny Franker
- Frannie Franker
- General Store
- Gretchen
- Gretchen Fetchem
- Gretchen Fetchum
- Ivon Bargain
- Ivor
- Ivor Bargain
- Ivor Beggar
- Miss Petula
- Miss Petula's Paper Pets
- Post Office
- Paper Pets
- Shop
- Shops
- Store
- Village
- Willy
- Willy Builder
Tools
- Grass
- Grass Packet
- Grass Seed
- Grass seed packet
- Long grass
- Packet of Seeds
- Pond
- Sand
- Shovel
- Snow
- Spade
- Surface Packets
- Surface packet
- Surface packets
- Tool
- Tools
- Trick Stick
- Trick stick
- Watering Can
- Watering can
Site
- Admin
- Administrators
- Current events (Main Page?)
- Main Page
- Main page
- Site Map
- The Tilde
- To-do list
- Wiki Contest
PinataIsland.info:
- About
- Administrators
- Community Portal
- Copyrights
- General disclaimer
- Help
- Privacy policy
- Protected page
- Sandbox
- Searching
- Site support
- Style guide
TV show
Episodes
Cast
- (no Cast article for) Category:Cast
- List of minor characters
A-Z
- Language
- Localization
- Medicine
- Nintendo DS
- October 27th Preview
- Papier-mâché animals
- Piñata Paperchase
- Player Log
- Plush dolls
- Poisonous plant
- Press Release
- Press release
- Professor
- Regions
- Secret achievements
- Seed
- Special Edition
- Starfish
- Stubs
- TIP species
- Tame
- Tinker
- Tip of the day
- Toys
- Tricks
- Trouble In Paradise
- Trouble in Paradise
- Unavailable Piñatas
- Unlock codes
- User Interface
- User interface
- VP2
- Viva Pinata
- Viva Pinata Classic
- Viva Pinata video game awards
- Viva Piñata
- Viva Piñata
- Viva Piñata video game awards
- Viva pinata
- Viva pinata 2
- Viva pinata pc
- Viva pinyata
- Viva piñata
- Walkthrough
- Water
- Wishing Well
- Xbox 360
- Xbox 360 game
- Xbox Live
- Xbox Live Marketplace
- Xbox Live Vision
Trying out icons to distinguish/identify different game information. Adding new game-specific sections to FAQ (instead of maintaining separate FAQs per game). (done)
If a question only applies to one game, do we want to show the icon, or omit it? Omit.
(I don't think it looks that good to try to inline these icons within answers, e.g., ... than 14 (
9 for Trouble in Paradise) watercress, so I suggest we only lead paragraphs with the icon.)

