Honestly struggling to stick to a fixed layout for my wiki's main page

[toxic kestrel]

I've been tinkering around with a lot of layouts, most of them were basically an average fandom wiki's layout with that hideous column on the right.

Right now I'm trying to stay away from that layout, been experimenting with new ones but I really can't figure out on what layout I want, and I kinda want layout ideas. Been looking for a layout which is responsive on mobile devices and is clean.

Here's what my wiki's main page looks like atm

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how do you even customize the main page to get things like this

[toxic kestrel]

how in gods green earth did you find this post 😭😭😭😭

As for how you even customize the main page

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i was looking for posts related to customising/designing main pages to see if anyone asked this before (and i didn't want to ask an already asked question) 🙏

[toxic kestrel]

It's all divs and css classes

[toxic kestrel]

Oh lmao

[warm pecan]

scary programming

[toxic kestrel]

I see i see

[toxic kestrel]

Eh it isn't once you get the hang of it

I mean my wiki's main page is now

10000x better than how it was

Even works on mobile

[warm pecan]

nice

[toxic kestrel]

The best advice i can give you is to experiment

That's what I did

Think of a layout and work your way from there

I loosely based mine on the Minecraft wiki's main page

All boxes just

Well if you think about it almost every single wiki's main page layout are just boxes lmao

Anyways good luck with your main page mate

[warm pecan]

my main page has 2 elements from Something Evil Will Happen's wiki, but i think i should try something more unique

[nimble widget]

Speaking of boxes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04dDYW-QaI is a good resource on making responsive pages that work on mobile devices and it champions the box idea.

[warm pecan]

yeah
the main page on my old Fandom wiki is just bunch of copy-pasted boxes from other wikis (a friend of mine did the copy-pasting though)

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thanks

[toxic kestrel]

your average fandom wiki main page formula is

main content in the center

and collapsible boxes in the right

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i'd like to have a layout that works on phones too

i'm not too sure on how these collapsable boxes would work on a phone

[toxic kestrel]

yeah flex boxes are ur way to go

[warm pecan]

what kind of boxes are those

[toxic kestrel]

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_flexbox.asp

[fervent relic]

(in general I believe it's okay to start new threads for a question instead of hijacking a really old one - the description for this forum explicitly says "make a new support thread" 🙏 It also means that OP won't get a notification and think that someone's answered their question)

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noted