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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- (Update
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
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| Species |
| Classic species |
| Trouble in Paradise species |
| Pocket Paradise species |
Hybrid using catmore and jump-to
- For more information, see Species.
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| Classic species |
| Trouble in Paradise species |
| Pocket Paradise species |
Trouble in Paradise articles, text format
See also: Trouble in Paradise, Trouble in Paradise FAQ, Trouble in Paradise species, Piñata Vision, P-Factor, Couch Social.
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've spent days and days trying to get a Chippo to be a resident with no luck. Is this a glitch? 
(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.)
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