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Some suggestions for improving deck guides and deck pages overall
Heya!
Back in hearthpwn I loved to mess around with the different buttons in the tools bar, which helped us make our decks more imposing. Since the admins are open for ideas for improving their site, here are my thoughts:
- Could you make the "font sizes" option so, that we could manually set the size of our texts and not just choose between the 7 given possibilities? Sometimes I feel like those are a bit too restrictive and in the cases, when I want to make different captions, they end up being either too small or too big. So I would appreciate having the ability to write my own desired size number in the aforementioned tab.
- Can you implement the eraser again (i.e. the ability to remove all links from a copy/pasted word and set its size, colour, font family to default)? Right now, if I quote something from wikipedia for example, I have to left click on the word with an external link, chose the "insert/edit link" button, manually erase the link and repeat this process for the next one.
- Speaking of quoting, can you add the option of inserting a blanc quotation text box as well?
- The following is not really important and is probably the least of your concerns, but can you make it possible for a word/phrase to show the picture of a card, if it's linked to its respective OOC card page? Example - 4 mana 7/7 should show Flamewreathed Faceless, when the user places the mouse cursor on the bolded word.
- Spoilers. I know, I know, another user made a thread about them a little while ago and people have been asking for this feature ever since hearthstation was born, but I decided to include it in the list.
And something, which wa neither an option in the tools bar nor was a thing on hearthpwn - may we please have the ability to pin a post in the comment sections of our deck pages? Right now I would like to make a post, which people would immediately see once they scroll under the deck description, without having the fear that it would be lost somewhere in the comment section, if users wrote a lot of posts after its publication. I don't have this problem yet, because people aren't active on my decks and I can always delete the desired post (btw thanks for implementing that) and paste it once again, in order for this to appear on the top. But this is a change in the future, when the site becomes more popular and more and more people come here to view hot decks and express their opinions on them.
That's all I can say. If people have other ideas on how to improve the site, you can share them here.
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Heya!
Back in hearthpwn I loved to mess around with the different buttons in the tools bar, which helped us make our decks more imposing. Since the admins are open for ideas for improving their site, here are my thoughts:
- Could you make the "font sizes" option so, that we could manually set the size of our texts and not just choose between the 7 given possibilities? Sometimes I feel like those are a bit too restrictive and in the cases, when I want to make different captions, they end up being either too small or too big. So I would appreciate having the ability to write my own desired size number in the aforementioned tab.
- Can you implement the eraser again (i.e. the ability to remove all links from a copy/pasted word and set its size, colour, font family to default)? Right now, if I quote something from wikipedia for example, I have to left click on the word with an external link, chose the "insert/edit link" button, manually erase the link and repeat this process for the next one.
- Speaking of quoting, can you add the option of inserting a blanc quotation text box as well?
- The following is not really important and is probably the least of your concerns, but can you make it possible for a word/phrase to show the picture of a card, if it's linked to its respective OOC card page? Example - 4 mana 7/7 should show Flamewreathed Faceless, when the user places the mouse cursor on the bolded word.
- Spoilers. I know, I know, another user made a thread about them a little while ago and people have been asking for this feature ever since hearthstation was born, but I decided to include it in the list.
And something, which wa neither an option in the tools bar nor was a thing on hearthpwn - may we please have the ability to pin a post in the comment sections of our deck pages? Right now I would like to make a post, which people would immediately see once they scroll under the deck description, without having the fear that it would be lost somewhere in the comment section, if users wrote a lot of posts after its publication. I don't have this problem yet, because people aren't active on my decks and I can always delete the desired post (btw thanks for implementing that) and paste it once again, in order for this to appear on the top. But this is a change in the future, when the site becomes more popular and more and more people come here to view hot decks and express their opinions on them.
That's all I can say. If people have other ideas on how to improve the site, you can share them here.
Definitely good suggestions. A few of these things are on the to do list already like tweaking available font sizes and a 'remove formatting' button (i really want to see that myself). Of course spoilers are a must as well.
I think a button for quote blocks will be handy, though you can still type out bbcode to do this for now: [quote] [/quote] will do the trick, but don't bold the text like i did because that breaks it currently and i did it as an example. Perhaps it can be styled in the editor as well.
There is a way to do some of this already if you can use html. Editing the source code through the <> button allows more freedom as essentialy the buttons are just shortcuts to put the source code in for you, and it is rendered to be more understandable in the editor. I'll give a couple examples:
To change the font size of text in the source code you can add <span style="font-size: 23pt;"> before the text in question and follow it with a closing tag </span>. The number can be changed as you see fit, this is the pt size of the text. Not sure if there are any limits imposed on this, but realistically the menu just provides preset values.
We also need that format clearing button to make it easy to revert to default as you said. Currently if you need to change the font size back to default you simply have to delete the span tags seen above or change it to 11pt.
For custom tooltips you can use the markup directly in the source code. The [Hearthstone Card (tags basically just tell the site what markup to generate to show the tooltip requested and is a simple and easy way to generate the same result. You can see the markup of things by right clicking them and choosing inspect element. Here us what a card tooltip looks like in html:
<a class="card-tooltip set-rastakhans-rumble rarity-legendary hscls-druid" href="/hearthstone/cards/4888-wardruid-loti">Wardruid Loti</a>
As you can see it follows a pattern of parameters. You can copy and paste this into source code and modify as needed. Rarity controls the colour of the tooltip, and href is the link pointing to the card page on the site. The text between the <a></a> tags is the actual text displayed for the tooltip, and can be whatever you want. So the code for your example would be this:
<a class="card-tooltip rarity-common" href="/hearthstone/cards/4069-flamewreathed-faceless">4 mana 7/7</a>
And when you put it in the source code:
4 mana 7/7
I think it may be possible to make a shortcut for this in the future as well, however i cant promise when that would happen. Hopefully that at least gives you some insight in case you wish to do stuff like that for the time being.
Your idea for pinning comments on your own decks is an interesting one and may be worth considering as an enhancement. Your feedback is very much appreciated so thanks for sharing 😄
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Big thanks for the info; I will gladly follow those tips.
This post from Chimera proves that we need a guide for people who likes to edit their deck-guides or comments. Who knows what secrets will be uncovered?
Testing
[edit] Thanks, Chimera, once again for the tips. I agree with Esperanta, that there should be a guide for custom tooltips so that users would be able to make their decks more flashy. I would gladly make a thread quoting the things you said, if you have more important things to do, because imho most users skip the "Feature requested" threads and aren't aware of the things you wrote above.