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Is there a risk that a new version of Wordpress will not support <hr/>? If that ever happens, I want to know because not only Content Index pages (pages that link to actual content) use them, but also other articles like my Unused Text Series. They would not work well at all without <hr/>.No problem.I just don't want to go changing live pages without giving people the chance to speak up.
For now, it's either no horizontal lines on all pages, or no horizontal lines on all pages. Part of the problem I'm trying to fix is that there's no one common formatting across the site. The reason why this is so annoying is because some of our pages are really short (and could do without <hr/>) and some are really long (and <hr/> helps a lot with organizing those). And I have to make sure everything works with Wordpress. I might go back when I'm done with the whole project, but for now, it's easier to just do everything the same.
If we lose support for <hr/>, then a new function/code for a horizontal line must take its place.
I can understand the desire to want every page following the same format: The visuals and code become easier to remember and keep track of this way plus the reader does not have to think as much when browsing from one page type to another type.
That said, I will still consider the frontpage a success if we have three different page formats altogether. Consistency with headers and bullet-points is a huge achievement already.
EDIT: If I HAD TO CHOOSE though I'd go with horizontal lines everywhere. The <hr/> has the function of putting everything neatly into "boxes". I'd rather have too much organized neatly into boxes rather than too little or nothing organized at all into these boxes.
By "Medium" pages, do you refer to the for now non-clickable titles of "Games" and "Movies & Animations" on the Franchise Guide page? If you mean that you could create a "Games" page and "Movies & Animations" page, I think it's a better idea to not create those.
We already have a lot of pages that were created for the sake of web design consistency such as Content, About, Community, FFVII Compendium, Fan Works and so on (and I could be wrong but I think when Fangu coded for the new frontpage, creating the roll-down menus, it was necessary to have some of these new pages). These pages aren't strictly speaking NECESSARY as their titles are self-explanatory already, but they do create visual consistency with the computer arrow turning into a hand when causing the roll-down menus to pop up and scrolling over them.
I think that creating a "Games" page and "Movies & Animations" page solely for that type of visual design consistency would be to go slightly overboard, because nobody wants to even accidentally end up in a page where the title is self-explanatory.
Apologies if I misunderstood here what you mean by "Medium" pages. If I understood you correctly though, more Medium pages should not become a priority even after your current project is finished. =)
I do quite enjoy the spacing here. The grey text of the descriptions create a less monotonous pattern, thus making the spacing in this example actually look appealing. My eyes are loving the update to the FFVII - The Original page. I only have two notes:
1) I dislike when horizontal lines are stopped by images. If it were me, I'd add </br> to create spacing above the horizontal line, thus moving the line to continue under the FFVII logo image. Not as space efficient but I just wanted to voice this aesthetical pet peeve of mine. Others may disagree.
2) The "Max Natural HP/MP Challenge Completed by songsengnim" link should be under "Miscellaneous", not under "Gameplay Videos of Final Fantasy VII Demos". Good category/header/title you created there though.
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