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Work in progress, boys. I think having the top title box mirror the main sight is a good one. I'm going nuts figuring out where I'm missing the open/close parenthesis, but I'd like the banks of links to be left, center, right boxes and then maybe I'll pretty up the titles of them. People who actually know what they're doing feel free to correct my crappy coding. --MitchO 22:33, 4 May 2008 (EDT)

Well, you could do what Wesley's just done on the front page (use HTML) -- or insert a {|- at the top, as follows:

JoCo Originals

JoCommunity Work

JoCopedia Links

--Bry 02:16, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

Although you'll notice the headers don't line up quite properly (I think the cell contents are centered vertically within each cell). Let me see:
JoCo Originals JoCommunity Work JoCopedia Links

How's that? --Bry 02:22, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

I was just typing about how I had to change the table to HTML in order to get the cells to have the right style, but it turns out Bry's solution looks a lot better. (Using Wiki formatting makes it easier to read, I think.) The only thing I'd change is to add to Bry's code the bold part here: style="width:15%; font-size:95%; vertical-align: top;" (and get rid of the valign= part). That way, everything's in the style= part. Nice job, Bry, and good luck, MitchO! — Wesley | 02:27, 5 May 2008 (EDT)
On second thought, that's not true; using valign= actually makes it easier to read still. — Wesley | 02:29, 5 May 2008 (EDT)
Haha, I can't take credit - it's still all Mitch's code under the hood. (I mean like a car, not like a Klansman.) --Bry 03:47, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

Non-tabular comments

I think the visual connection to the main page is a great idea, and I wouldn't mind if it were tied to it even more closely (maybe a little more orange?). I think there may be too much text there, though -- something simpler, like "Welcome to JoCopedia, the Jonathan Coulton wiki!", might feel less cluttered.

Obviously you haven't added all the content yet, but I would like a brief blurb on who JoCo is and what he's done, as well as the "what to do" for newbies. And maybe the links need to be a little more clear (as to where they're leading). But those are all problems with the current main page, not with your design -- I'm just getting everything down as I think of it.

And I fixed this earlier today on the Main Page, but the reason This Day in JoCo has been a little ahead (should be okay now) is because the code used "CURRENTMONTHNAME" and "CURRENTDAY", which are based on UTC time, rather than "LOCALMONTHNAME" and "LOCALDAY", which are based on the local time set in the wiki (here, US Eastern time).

(This just came to me as I was typing these comments: What about a "song of the day," with a trivia tidbit about it, along the lines of the "did you know?" box on Wikipedia and elsewhere?)

--Bry 03:47, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

I've taken the colors from the jonathancoulton.com css file to create this orange box:

March 28 in JoCo

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(By the way, Mitch, your box on the MitchO/Main Page is missing the closing |}.) --Bry 07:11, 5 May 2008 (EDT)