Thread:Hackey5/@comment-4189499-20150409024114

Hey Hackey5! I've been told that you're the coding brains behind this wiki. Nice job, by the way! However, I've seen a couple of problems which I thought I'd point out to you which have to do with the style impacting the functionality of the wiki.

First off, have you done anything to change the height of this box I'm using to post this message, because for some reason it's not opening the full way and I can only read one line of text at a time, which is annoying. I've actually had to move to Notepad to finish writing this message.

Secondly, the background colour of the content area is much too opaque and the background image too busy and too low contrast to the text, making it very difficult to read what is written, especially in the darker, upper regions of the page. Can you please make the background pane more opaque to increase readability over the background image? Also, Wikia prefers it if you change style elements like the colour and opacity of the background through the Theme Designer rather than Wikia.css for information gathering purposes so they can improve their features. Speaking of the theme designer, on my screen your background image falls short of the end of the page and it looks bad like that. It might be better if, instead of tiling the image, you leave it as fixed with a background colour at the bottom as the colour between the tiles so there isn't just a dark band suddenly appearing under the light colours. Or, if you want to retain the tiling in the horizontal direction which is more complicated than the standard theme designer options, you could do that through CSS and leave the background colour in theme designer as #6DB4CE so that it looks natural where it ends. If you're doing things which can't be done in theme designer, then it's fine to use CSS, but for the things that can be, they prefer you use their designer.

Another thing is that I can see you've changed the border radius of the avatar in the global naviagtion bar. While it looks loads better, Wikia has said that it's a violation of their ToU to change the global nav. Sorry, but you'll have to change it back to the boring old standard before one of the Staff members come take a look. I see you're hoping for a spotlight, and they definitely won't let you have one if the global nav isn't at their boring, and in some ways ineffective, standard.

Any yet another problem has appeared. I can't access the level three navigation menus on the wiki's local navbar. Whenever I move my mouse off the option on the level two which opened the level three to get to the level three, the level three menu closes. Maybe try making the top of the level three menus come up a bit higher, because I suspect there is a gap between the element which triggers the third level menu and the menu itself. For debugging purposes, I'm using Chrome.

Arg, this message has gone on far longer than I was expecting. Sorry if I sound like an annoying busybody who has just turned up out of nowhere top point out all your problems, and I'm sure there are several you're working on at the moment to fix. It's just that I am the coding person on most of the wikis I edit and I know how hard it can be to notice all the little problems once you become used to them, or when they're only affecting a different browser (which is how I managed to leave the navbars of both CCSW and DWA broken in Firefox for several months :| ). As somebody with fresh eyes and a knowledge of what can be done, I thought it was worth pointing these things out so they could be brought to your attention. Your wiki truly does look great, and fixing these few minor details will just polish it off.

PS: I fixed Template:Tick for you and gave 3primetime3 the instructions of how to fix Template:USERNAME back over on CCSW.

PPS: You were the one who write the message in the welcome message, right? It's one of the best ones I've read! Good job on that! 