Thread:TheWikiaEditMachine/@comment-27372241-20171108014225/@comment-26287306-20171126041949

Who am I kidding? there are some holes with my CSS, especially when trying to make things work so that it can be controlled by a lot of variables and having to resolve CSS prioritization issues, I bet you couldn't tell that the last word on my first reply to this thread was a link (RIP, well I mean I could just add CSS to fix that). You should see that I made a few edits to my first reponse to this thread to get a few more ideas ideas out and realized that there are flaws with having a design that just works.

You know whata WannaCry is? It refers to a software breach hat occured earlier this year with ransomware in hospitals. The computers hacked ran Windows XP, which Microsoft killed extended support for in 2014 but released patches for the ransomware because of the attention the sitaution brought. The reason why people stick to old operating systems like that is simply because they work. I am getting a bit off topic but you probably mean a design that people can tolerate and works.

You can tell that design has evolved throughout the past several years, it was only a few years ago when IOS, macOS, and Windows, had old school or old school-ish icons, not to mention Google's old school which wasn't changed until 2015 to the bold sans serif font. The point is that you don't stick to what justs looks but what is relevant and I know I take it too far with my CSS and I'm just addicted to it, it goes back to what I just said about making a great exeprience for users.

Wikia uses some REALLY old school designs (AHEM, the gradients used on buttons? That's supposed to make the buttons resmeble a real life equivalent of a rounded surface button, trying to mimic real life designs was the trend around 10 years ago but now people have moved onto flat design). in 2014 Google releaed a design language called Material Design which looks really cool and is what heavily influences my CSS, some even call it flat design 2.0. Google released android lollipop in late 2014 which was the first version of Android to feature material design and it looks MUCH different from Android Kitkat which was released the year before (just look up images of Android Lollipop & KitKat and u will be shocked, android kitkat's UI works just fine btw).

I use CSS more than for looks, the wikias gradients were one of the original reasons why I started writing CSS but I also did not like how text in some areas on wikia's site was hard to read or have small font sizes, some cases in which I don't think they have fixed yet, there has been a case where wikia messed up their CSS in the admin control panel and they didn't patch it until days later, this was earlier this year when they still had the two times per week update schedule, which btw has way more bug fixes than features, just shows how broken their system is, like many I would consider better designs a feature because it makes the experience feel that much better.

I also acknowledge that companies update their designs to stay relevent in the market and make money, while we are here on wikia just to inform users about ROBLOX games and have a community of ROBLOX players. In conclusion, I ranted about how having something that just works isn't that good, the importance of design, and I just do it to provide wikia users a good experience.