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What are the best ways to roll out styled icon/profile pages?
So, one of the projects Styles has been working on is custom icon and profile pages. The stunning
exor674 has implemented a backend for custom icon pages; after we implement them for all styles, we will be working on custom profile pages.
One of the concerns is that a good amount of people are going to not see icon pages--and especially profile pages, which are difficult enough to do effectively without shoehorning them into a style--in styles. But we don't want to multiply too many options. Possible strategies are:
Other ideas welcome!
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One of the concerns is that a good amount of people are going to not see icon pages--and especially profile pages, which are difficult enough to do effectively without shoehorning them into a style--in styles. But we don't want to multiply too many options. Possible strategies are:
- Add a separate display option for icon and profile pages, or just profile pages since icon pages are far less likely to be troublesome in styles.
- Don't add any options. All styles will have the ability to display icon and profile pages in the site style, just like entry pages. Somebody who doesn't want to view them can use the style=mine sticky display and set them thus. This will not satisfy the people who don't want to set display options for style=mine, but it's probably the fewest options.
- Hooking them up to the entry display option--probably not a good idea.
- Hooking them up to the journal display option--also not a good idea, since few people will be using the site view for their journal.
Other ideas welcome!
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Actually, with a little bit of poking around, I guess most of the styles do have a link to the DW homepage at the very bottom of the page? Is that a required element for all styles? I *suppose* I could get used to using that instead, if I had to, I guess. :P But it would still be nice if there was some more prominent way. *curmudgeon*. (I suspect there are a lot of other people who are used to using userhead-to-profile as a shortcut to site scheme, too, because there's no other obvious way. And DW's site scheme is just so useful now.)
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Unfortunately, your very requirement (that it be prominent) is the thing that drives people to not want it on their styles, and since it's their journal, it's hard to force the matter. And the userhead to profile shortcut will definitely still work for a user who wants it--but it means being logged in, which doesn't fit your requirement.
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Could the link to the DW homepage be made a required element? Or would that cause a ton of screaming and yelling/break too many styles? I think if I knew it was guaranteed to be there, and in more or less the same place on every style, that would be enough to minimally satisfy me, once I got used to not being able to use profile pages anymore.
Having the navbar show on profile pages no matter what, as suggested above, would also work.
I know I could always manually type the address, but having to switch to typing mode just to get to the site's main page can be really annoying, especially if I'm navigating with my tablet or a touchscreen or a cat on the keyboard or one hand immobilized or something like that.