Nookipedia:Project Interface

Welcome to the project page for Project Interface! For more information about the project and our objectives, please read on. If you would like to comment on our progress, please use the talk page. If you're interested in joining, simply add your name to the list of current members.

Purpose
This project is focused on improving Nookipedia's interface. This includes sitewide theming and CSS improvements, establishing responsive and mobile-focused design standards, developing and providing gadgets for editors, and improving templates. One of the project's main areas of focus is the development of templates and tables that display well across a variety of devices.

Mobile
These general guidelines aim to improve the mobile experience on the site, as over 70% of Nookipedia's readership comes from cellular or tablet devices. Following these suggestions will reduce the amount of clutter within our template and article pages, providing our users with a more productive reading and editing experience.

Please avoid:

 * Hovertext generated using template tt
 * Instead use template Note or see suggestions at the bottom of this page.


 * Expand/collapse buttons generated using
 * Instead use the tabs extension as documented here.


 * Placing tables within tables
 * Instead use a series of s or consider simplifying your layout.


 * HTML & CSS styling on article pages
 * Instead limit HTML and CSS styling to template pages.


 * Duplicating wikitext code or CSS styling in template pages
 * Instead consider utilizing the loops extension.

We encourage:

 * Setting template widths to 100% to occupy the full width of the mobile display
 * Prioritizing vertical orientation of templates, or flexible templates capable of shifting their aspect ratio
 * Maximal information in minimal space to avoid excessively long pages/lots of scrolling
 * Use CSS Grids to create responsive designs and lists (e.g. see Template:VillagerGallery in action at Dog).

Timeless skin
Nookipedia has adopted the Timeless skin for our mobile site, replacing the previous Minerva Neue skin. Timeless has a responsive layout that will adapt elements and the layout to different resolutions, creating a consistent appearance between small screen and larger screen devices.

Although Timeless renders our templates much better than Minerva Neue did, some of them will still need to be optimized for best appearance on mobile.

To-do
Here are some to-dos to help optimize the site for mobile:
 * Template:Gallery (needs to expand width of page and show image)
 * Template:Villager Info (width issues)
 * Template:HHD Info (stretches the page)
 * Template:Youtube (very large and off-center - should make it match layout of galleries)

Some pages use tables with lots of data that may not be possible to condense to a smaller size. This may be acceptable in some cases, but we should try to resolve any visual quirks.
 * List of villagers (loads very slowly on mobile, maybe we could hide some data?)
 * List of amiibo cards (also too narrow on mobile when collapsed)
 * The various furniture lists

Members
If you wish to join Project Interface simply add your name to the list of current members below.

Current

 * Sunmarshsignature.png  ( talk ) 
 * ~ Super  Hamster  Talk 10:51, April 2, 2020 (EDT)
 * --Shark HHD Icon.png Dorsal Axe (talk)