Forum:Coloring The Names

I've done some thinking over the past few months, and I've looked at multple wikis, including one I administrate at, Pokemon Wiki. These wikis have One thing in common - colored names. Now this may sound goofy and pointless, but just hear me out. So, At a few wikis (Pokemon Wiki, Call of Duty Wiki, and Legend Of Leagues Wikis off the top of my head), they decided to color the names of the administrators, rollbacks, staff, bots and VSTF with each having their own unique color, now this may sound goofy but it isn't, wjem users need help, they can look at the Recent Wiki Activity, and when they need help, all they would have to do is go to the Recent Activity and look for the most recent colored name, and they can go to them for help. This would make it much easier for users. However, to do this you have to know very strict coding, which I somewhat know and I am still currently learning, its called CSS, I am pretty sure on how to do it after watching my fellow users at Pokemon Wiki do it, so I could help with this, however only admins can do this, so someone can eiher learn how to do CSS coding, or we could not do this at all, there are many other solutions to this though, but the first question is if we want the names to be colored or not. I want the opinions of the whole community, not just admins, so, do we want colored names? Please state your reaons why or why not. Thanks! --

Can you show me what it looks like?--58SlugDrones • (Contact) 04:19, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

w:c:pokemon:Special:RecentChanges, I am an admin there, so you should see my name in an orangeish-reddish color, of course we can color our names to any color. --

Not a bad idea!--58SlugDrones • (Contact) 04:27, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. ^^ --

I suppose I get it. All we have to do find suitable colors besides red and green right? How's about... different shades of blue? (yeah, like no-one thought of that!)--58SlugDrones • (Contact) 04:50, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

Go here, Click Color 1, and you can get every single one of the possible colors, and their Hex Code (Yes, All of them work) --

That's help! Looks like Paint Tool SAI. Well, I'm out.--58SlugDrones • (Contact) 04:55, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

Well, since we can bold colors, we can do a yellow, or an orange, maybe a black/gray (Though that would be sort of dull) Or a Dark Purple (Since the Already Clicked links are lighterish). We would also need colors for the Rollbacks, VSTF, Staff, and Bots (They could all be unbolded) *shurgs* --

Agreed. --

Another wiki I use, Young Justice Wiki, just uses bold text for their administrators, and that sets them out quite well. We don't need to go crazy on the colors if you use bold text. If you still want a different color, then I think a slightly deeper shade of blue is sufficient. -- Supermorff 06:35, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

No, changing the text color for Admins, Rollbacks, Staff, VSTF, and Bots. -    Bullet Francisco  (   Talk   |   Contribs   |   Edit Count   )   22:19, September 28, 2011 (UTC)

No, their username will be in a different colour on recent changes, ect.  Myself  123  23:09, September 28, 2011 (UTC)

Is there any more discussion on this? Approved? Unapproved? --

I like the sound of it. Knowall - October 02, 2011 18:42

I propose having orange for admin/ crat, and yellow for rollback. As for all of the other things, i have no clue. Jake the Hedgehog  The Ultimate Apprentice  22:46, October 3, 2011 (UTC)