alright let's talk page structure,
princessofmusic Rhythms Snobalt has volunteered as HTML peeps and thus I'd love the input you may have to share on this subject regarding what's possible and/or feasible. Any other coder is naturally free to weigh in with their suggestions, the more the merrier
First of all,
the page listing all badged artists is currently wasting its space, as it's purely a horizontal list from top to bottom. What I'd like to see is multiple lists, sort of like the
category pages on wikipedias without the letter divisions, and if we could get rid of the dots as well then that'd be even better imo. I also considered dividing artists into what they're most renowned for, such as digital art, vectors, traditional, and spriting, or maybe even what year(s) they were badged, just so we could create some manner of spacing so that we don't end up with a symmetrical block of links. But basically, any solution where we don't have a single column of links is better for browsing purposes, so if anyone can propose a solution or whip up some code on the spot would be terrific.
Secondly, there's the art archive at the bottom of each artist profile where we link to their art that's already on-site or any other media outlet, such as art for The Smog, The Player, The Competitor, Smogon articles, facebook, CAP designs, Monthly-Art-Contest winners, I could go on. For the most part, it could be set up similarly to the Artist Profile list, where there's a subcategory for each area / outlet, and then have about two columns to the link the various articles and whatnot. If we want to divide each category up further (like for Smog contributions, we could divide them up in issues), we could set up / borrow what they did for the
ORAS TMs page, where each gray line represents one issue and with the articles then listed below. For most artists, this won't be an issue since we don't have that many people who have contributed a huge amount, but for people like fatecrashers, cartoons! and myself, a system like that could make things more organised.
Lastly,
13ulbasaur just got her artist badge, so she gets a piece of this cake too. See the first post of this thread and
this post if you feel like writing something up for your profile! :)