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New Design for Shops

Just wanted to post this here, as I'd like some feedback on this new idea for a shop description page (a bit of a follow-up on both GuildKnight's brilliant Guild Hall-pages and my own complaints about building pages in general). HERE in my sandbox, I've tried to make a shop page more satisfying and informative. It's a scaled-down version of the Guildhall pages, and I think it's more than needed, especially if you compare it with the original. I would be happy if any of you would give some feedback on the two tags in the top as well. How many images needed? 1 or 3? Should we mention safe-containers? As an article, I think it's satisfying and informative - and I really don't want to change a whole lot, mostly to keep the consistency to the guild-pages. Anyway, I hope you guys and gals like the idea and that you will find the time to post your opinion. - Krusty 15:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I like the new layout. But as with the inns, I think I should add in the gold and mercantile skill in the actual summary box. It would be easy enough. I think this should be used! --Elliot^(T-C) 15:59, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I've already told you I like it on IRC so I'll say it again here. Just a few points. First, I agree with Elliot's point about the infobox. Second, although The Gilded Carafe is a fairly full store, some of the others aren't. If a section can only have one line of text describing it, I'd merge areas together: something like "Rest of the Store", perhaps? Third, I don't see why we can't have one image per zone as with the guilds, except where things get combined. Good stuff though! –rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 17:42, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I managed to tweak the Place Summary to include more information. You can see the changes in my sandbox. Just follow the instructions to see it otherwise it will look weird (due to namespace issues). --Elliot^(T-C) 20:48, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the replies! I agree with all the statements, and that new Place Summary box looks good! I plan on doing the Market District first - just to see how it plays, and because most of these shops are big enough for this treatment. If not, I'll merge some of the sections as suggested. And I really hope, somebody will take on the important CS checking/writing (*nudges GuildKnight*), as it would be really cool to add the "safe containers" info - as well as finding out if I missed something. And Rpeh, I think you're very right. When a shop is as "full" as The Gilded Carafe, we might as well add an image to each section. I'll change the tag. Here we go! Krusty 10:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)