Announcing the latest iteration of the armory. Better looking, more useful, and stealing even more graphical assets from Etro's themes! (I stole his triangles this time). So far, most important pages have been re-written from the ground-up using a new HTML platform. Therefore, I decided to make a pretty post about this pretty new armory, using all the snazzy things I can muster like those super-slick fades into transparency that people do to indicate that there's normally more below what was imaged, and some really boss chroma-keying. BEHOLD:
Character pages now boast higher-resolution character renders, improved tooltips, and an improved layout. Personally, I now enjoy staring into my gnome's eyes in what I can only describe as super-ultra-HD*
* Probably not truly HD to be honest.
Item, npc, achievement, quest and spell pages now feature far slicker layouts, utilising a new tabbed arrangement for each data section, reducing clutter and streamlining the pages. They also now have this dead mint fade thing that they do, which I like to spam when I get a bit sad.
Item pages now feature a full-width render box with the Legerdemain Lounge in Dalaran providing backdrop. I chose it because they serve a wide variety of beverages to suit all tastes.
NPC pages of raid bosses now provide a sleeker and more visually appealing raid information box, complete with raid depedent splash image. I just really like bright colours, so getting an excuse to introduce more to a page without making it too tacky is almost as euphoric as that first cup of tea in the morning, or that first strongly alcoholic drink to fill the void in your heart that grew during a period of unrelenting sobriety... almost.
Search fields have been added to several pages, with more to come still, allowing for individual entities to be easily found within a page or section. For example, I often type the word "quiche" into every search field I come across, to see what comes up.
Additionally, page selectors have been upgraded, generally looking neater and now allowing you to jump to specific pages by clicking on their central sections, and my god don't they look proper dazzling.
Yeah, you're reading that right... last time I did DBS on Nuko was 2012. Deal with it newbies.
Raid progress pages now not only detail how many recorded encounter completions a character has, but also the last time they completed each encounter. Let the larger-than-average NPC murder based stalking begin!
Ladder pages have been reworked to provide a smoother experience, allowing for switching between realms and categories without reloading the page.
In addition, they are the first pages to see the introduction of the new option selectors, which I just think look pretty wizard if I do say so myself.
The revamp continues, expect to see more page reworks in the near future, along with some under-the-hood changes, improving accuracy, usefulness and speed.
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Thanks for reading, stay safe, keep button mashing and remember the eternal words of wisdom:
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Oops, sorry, finger slipped, obviously I meant:
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Cheery-bye!