Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26287306-20160824164613

Status: The home page is live!

I just want to make sure that the new home page works for everyone please follow these steps to check if the new home page is working for you:

1. Double click "Announcements" and you should only see announcements before the second tabs 2. Double click "New Here" and you should only see some stuff to do if you're new, and after you see the second tabs

Note: Polls doesn't do anything because they're currently no polls on the home page.

3. repeat these steps for all 4 tabs

Is the new home page working? The home page is 100% working Some things in the home page are working while others aren't The home page isn't working at all!

IF anything isn't working, please message TheWikiaEditMachine the following:

1.The Platform you're on (the computer or mobile device you're using to view the home page, please specify the version you're using) 2. The web browser you're using and its version (should be found in the settings of the web browser). 3. What specifically isn't working on the home page

Home Page August 2016 Changelog


 * reformatted the whole page to use a custom tabbing system by yours truely
 * removed tabber and tabber accommodation as they became obsolete
 * Added a "new here?" section to make sure new users or players know what to do

I've finally released an major update to the Miner's Haven wikia after a while, I do love this wikia but sometimes I'm not in the mood to edit and the feeling is very hard to explain. In June I had the idea to replicate the tabs used on the ROBLOX website (like the ones you see on the page on a game), at first I did some experimenting behind the scenes with only HTML and CSS which didn't work, I needed to use JS (JavaScript), JS is the language in websites that actually controls the functionality of elements.

HTML specifies what elements are there and CSS specifices the looks of those elements. Knowing I would need JS I went on Codecademy and took some JS lessons hoping I would eventually learn what I need to make the home page update possible. You're Probably Thinking I couldv'e looked at the code on the ROBLOX website, the problem is that you can't view JS with inspect element (a tool in major web browsers that allow you to look at the code of websites).

I lost my patience with Codecademy and two weeks ago, I started looking up how to do specific things with JS and I found results about Jquery (a JavaScript library that makes it easier to write JS), I expiremented with that on my test wikia and saw that things were finally working! I then did Google searches for Jquery functionality and everything started to fall into place.

I was hoping to get the update out by my 1st Miner's Haven birthday (two days ago, btw I got my 2nd True Overlord Device and 2nd Dragon Blaster on my 365th life) but I procrastinated in submitting my JS for wikia staff review. I wanted to make sure that I got all the stuff to work before doing so, I submittied it on the night of August 21st. I wake up this morning and see it got approved! 