User talk:Montag/Faction quests

Intended improvements
I wanted to take our current quest format standard and give it a slightly sharper, more professional tone. My primary goals were to make relevent information obtainable at a glance in a consistent manner across all quests while preserving space for the nitty gritty stuff below, improve navigation for long quest lines, and make the page more aesthetically pleasing.

Aesthetic Fixes
You'll notice first of all the at the top which places the Table of Contents on the right side. This keeps the page nicely balanced with the Overview information on the left and TOC on the right. There are a couple minor edits to the Overview style: Colons are now also bolded and 'giver' is capitalized. I've also standardized the order of information within each field. For instance, item rewards always come before gold which always comes before rank advancement. The rank name has also been italicized to allow it to stand out at a glance. I also added the picture to indicate quickly the presence of a monetary reward. Lastly, I removed the word "information" from "Background Information" since I found it to be cluttering the upper part of the page, which should be the clearest and most concise portion of the walkthrough.

Extra Section: Journal Entries
I've added a Journal Entries section to give the reader some primary source material to peruse when looking over the walkthrough information. Some articles already include this, but many do not indicate when the player receives these journal updates, so I've indicated each instance above the text itself. To easily locate a specific event, I've indented the journal text to allow the event descriptions to stand out.

Next quest/Previous quest
The Next Quest field was originally part of the overview, but I found in practice that most were located at the bottom of the page. Therefore, in order to allow it to stand out, I wrote a navigation bar template including the Next and Previous quest fields. By linking the article to the next and previous quests, a user can very quickly navigate back and forth through a quest line. I have considered putting this at the top of the page but chose to keep it at the bottom in order to leave the top uncluttered.

Let me know what you think. 17:59, 7 May 2006 (CDT)