Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-15636815-20131111185541/@comment-15529092-20131119112456

Finally, I would like to record 3 new  ideas which I got when I was reviewing your demos and Themes page yesterday.

• Enhance table with FILTER with these 3 options => 1) gem costs only, 2) material & gold costs only, 3) both costs. This would help to keep better orientation in ' 2 entries per item layout' (forced by forcing). Furthermore, it pushes further usability of table. Furthermore this filter is good as reflection of in-game filter functionality (when you are in storage, you can use filter with exactly 3 same options as I am proposing).

•  I have noticed that award themes table has different appearance for the rest of the table (1st column is much wider compared to other tables because in these particular table is only 1 more column). This should be solved easily when with  setting maximum  fixed   size for 1st (picture or text) columns -> in order to keep consistent look of tables.

• Footnotes referencing is inconstent throught tables. First time, reference on footnote is in Cost column (Western theme), another time there is reference from Discounted cost column (Meadow theme), another time is reference leading from Name column (Limited themes)... What about to have 1 constistent position where to put this footnote reference? When I reconsidered this idea, I concluded that original Notes column wasn't bad at all - however not as a place where to store all long note text, but as a place where to store reference to footnotes (which contain note texts). Column's name should be very short to save table's space (for example star = * ).

That should be all concerning original Theme's template. I am also tracking your progress at new Extensions layout. Awesome. Everything looks great! I have just 1 remark - please give some thoughts about choosing (background & text) colours on missing / uncofirmed values. Current state is tearing eyes and taking all user's focus to these values (preventing to concentrate on anything else in table). I would welcome something much more decent (I would think more about some conservative gray or white-gray gradients).

Pella, I would like to say some final words to you. I understand it must be frustrating to rework 1 template over and over without having it completed. I didn't want to discourage you and I'm sorry you feel it that way. Sorry that I gave my feed-back so late - I also wanted to have completed what I was working on (extensions content update).

I just tried to help you and to put in insights how to improve your template's usability. It's now all up to you how you will use these ideas. I wish you good luck, you are doing great work and I believe it will help this wiki much.

P.S.: I received reply from Pixel Federation staff concerning source data about Extensions yesterday. They would be surely happy to provide us with these data for further processing, but they regret that they can't help us as they don't have these data in any usable form. The would consider creating these database and in that case, they will surely contact us (I will ask them to address their message not personally to me but to this wiki's forum).