Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-5014364-20161112215742/@comment-5014364-20170421225958

1.85 to 2.2%? Could just be because the first wave of promotional still images came out today, and buzz for Season 7 in general, not sure.

Yeah I'll put "Season 6", "7 & 8" shifting left, then "Prior seasons" and "production" right of that. I can't put "Current Season" because I hit the maximum number of characters allowed on the bar.

Yeah I don't know what could replace the name "Production", but my hope is that anyone confused will hover to see what the menu is, which is more explicit (a catch-all for a few of the Production-side things like Merchandise, Costumes, Title Sequence, etc.)

IMPORTANT: I only just finished this right now, but I spent a few days working on some "Portals" - loosely inspired by how Memory Alpha has those.

Now these are dedicated new user Portals meant for casual viewers, and I put then under "Trending Topics" because I had two extra slots (the idea being that new readers will check out something called "Trending Topics" first).

UNLIKE our other menus, these have giant, friendly images: 2 on each row instead of 5....thus geared towards new people who might not know the proper names of things they only saw visually on TV. In keeping with that "they're for new people" principle, I limited the menu icons to no more than ten things, the idea being that a giant menu with huge bulleted lists of options would only scare them. It's a simplistic stripped-down menu meant for visual ease of access, as an introduction of sorts to the casual reader. To be honest, I had to put out some of the "Beyond Westeros" ones to get to ten, while the "Westeros by region" ones I didn't have that much space to put characters in (obviously the Lannister one has Cersei, Jaime, Tyrion, but the Vale one has too few characters (no one cares that much about Sweetrobin), the North too many (all the Starks and other supporting cast).

So it's 20 portals that I quickly put together in about 2 days to get the ball rolling, and meant for ease of access/introduction to new readers, not comprehensiveness.

The images themselves are just what I could grab and not squared off (I don't know how to make them auto-fit to the frames I set, it's just something I quickly threw together by adapting the front page menus).

I look forward to seeing how this turns out.

Now I'm turning my attention to the Wikia Videos request, and right after that, also in this subforum, "Operation Bootstrap": rather than comprehensively go through the entire wiki in order to prep for Season 7, I made a list of the most popular pages (using the "Popular Pages" tool).

If 1.8% of people use the nav bar, the rest are probably googling "Jon Snow" and "Daenerys Targaryen" to get here, so it makes sense to prioritize those...