Thread:Dark M clowN/@comment-131168-20140116182654/@comment-131168-20140120003825

Hey, wanted to talk a bit about your navigation templates. I will admit up front: though I didn't create our current format, I did follow its lead in creating and placing ones for many groups/soloists, so I am a bit more attached to them than they really deserve. BUT your current results for the S/mileage and Juice=Juice ones are pretty snazzy. There are a few things worth bringing up, though.

1. Mobile. Just based on viewing the Mobile version preview from the edit screen, they seem less mobile-friendly than the older simpler design. I rarely use the mobile site, but Wikia seems to say mobile versions keep getting used more, so it is something I'd worry about a little bit.

2. I notice you put some line breaks in the S/mileage singles, presumably to prevent single titles from getting split across two lines. Since not everybody's going to have quite the same settings on their machine/browser or be using the same width for the content areas, what looks right for the person setting up the template won't necessarily for the rest. Again, checking out the different width options in the Preview can show this. There is an HTML trick I use on another site I thought might work here for keeping titles from getting split across lines. It's kind of unwieldy, but could be made into a simple template easy enough. BUT the results are a little less than perfect. It does do what was intended, but adds a bit of an indent to the whole thing that sets the section apart from the rest, and the spacing around the • characters is a bit messed up. I currently have a few variations on your S/mileage nav template on Template:Sandbox. I'm inclined to think the version that simply allows titles to split across lines is the least troublesome, and I kind of like the lack of empty space on the right side of lines anyway.