User blog comment:Ryguyrules147/This Wiki Could Use a Visual Upgrade/@comment-3308937-20140826081327

1. As the person who basically created our theme I have to respectfully disagree with your first statement. We used to have white text on a black background and it was, as many other users pointed out, very jarring and did not lead to a professional feel but had the opposite effect of looking cheap or basic.

I may be a bit biased but I'd say the blue that I use is professional enough, it isn't the dark blue that one would find on a homemade website and has gone through many iterations balancing its rgb values along with lightening it up enough to give it a depth and quality that is, imo, smooth on the eyes while not being too basic.

In regards to white, I'm not a huge fan of it in general just due to how bright it can be but also because just white comes off like just black in being bland or basic. White has more potential than black but that potential lies in adding more styles than we already have and, to an extent, in areas that we can't touch due to limitations we have as a wiki. Many sites that used to use white are now moving towards other colors or are adding a mix of colors to the white, some good examples include the LoL official site which primarily uses a grey-ish off-white color now or even leaguepedia whose simple white color scheme used to be a defining feature but are now using a light shade of grey.

I do think that the dark-ish blue that we use can be somewhat heavy and have experimented with more natural or light colors like cream, beige, grey, light brown and even pale pink (my favorite) but it always felt off and it felt like we were trying to be something that we're not. In some cases it did feel more "professional" but it also felt stiff, uninviting and lacked personality. We've been using darker colors since the wiki was created back in 2008 and it's just who we are now.

Sorry for the length on this one, it's just something I hold close to me.

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2. I don't agree but I do think that our current tab system is dated and the way our pages are formatted can be clunky. I don't think cntrl+F is a usable thing when it comes to the way our sections work or for the kind of information we provide and don't believe that one long page is the direction we should go. I'd rather see the entire Strategy page removed with recommended items moving over to the main page and see the other pages renamed and recategorized as to fit the additional stuff that's been added to them over the years.

I like the champion main page as it is except for maybe the addition of more in-game relevant information like recommended items. The tab name "Champion" isn't very descriptive but works. The Background page I'd like to see remade into Lore and History now that developmental information is being stored there, also I wouldn't mind seeing more show/hide sections due to the length of the page, quotes could be moved to the main page in a show/hide function if need be. Strategy is removed in my ideal world. Skins & Trivia seems fine as that's essentially what the page is, skins and trivia, relations could be moved into Lore and History.

3. What Empty said

4. Kind of agree, our sliders weren't so bad back when champions only had 2-3 skins but having to go through 6-7 of them to try and find a skin can be a pain. There's some useful information in them that I would like see preserved if moved to a more gallery-like setting (rp cost, release date, lolking link) but other than that sure.