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[LP] Facelift
February 24th, 2011 21:41 GMT
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/disciple/forwiki/articlebannernew1.jpg) Liquipedia Weekly #16
Good morning! Good afternoon! Good evening! And of course, good night! Today is one of those days. You know...those days. One of the ones where you manage to make an excuse to get away from all the glorious BW, SC2, and TL and actually go outside for once. But first, you have to get ready. You have to get all gussied up. You can't just leave the house in your boxers and TL shirt (despite how awesome you look). You have to bring it.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/G67I4.png) You might recognize this...
Well LP doesn't care about going outside. All it wants to do is look smart and pretty for all the window shoppers. After all, it's totally superficial.
That's why, over the past several weeks, Liquipedia has been getting ready. It's polished its shoes, ironed a clean shirt, and invited Deetmar over to chaperone. Liquipedia will do this right.
If you're one of the regular contributors to LP, you may have glanced at the Skins tab in your  preferences lately (we all know you haven't, but that's okay). And you've seen this new option. "dtrush." And then you clicked it. And then you cried at the glorious beauty.
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/disciple/forwiki/splash1.jpg) We have a new door man
Today, I must mention salle in this weekly. Mostly because salle's paying us for every time we use salle's name, but also because salle's the one who has been getting this layout ready. You'll notice it's brighter and cleaner than the older layouts. There's a certain vibe about it that just makes you want to contribute (you want to contribute, right?) for hours on end, just so you can keep looking and the pretty colors.
But there's also disciple, one of the resident TL people we roped into working for Liquipedia. This guy took a pretty picture of Deetmar and turned it into a bunch of pretty colors which mean something. I can't really say too much more, because disciple doesn't really talk to anyone. He just posts occasionally with "Alright, X is done I guess" when what he meant to say was "Hey guys I just created the Monalisa with painted macaroni on a scale such that it's visible from space and I also just invented talking." He does a lot and we thank him for it by dragging him out into the spotlight every now and then.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/iSsWM.png) Old and new
And disciple made this all possible. He came to us with a dream. A vision.
<disciple> how to say it in the best possible way
<disciple> a in arial is like [censored]
And that's what got the ball rolling. His pure hatred, absolute loathing, complete damnation of a single letter has caused Liquipedia to get a new look. It has been brought up to code. It looks snazzy now. So always remember: hatred gives birth to good things!
Using nothing but hate and the blood of a thousand Arial users, disciple designed a new layout. He said (or rather he just posted the layout image, as he almost never talks), that his new design should be implemented because the old one sucked hardcore. And Salle took a swing at it. And the results are glorious. If you have Helvetica installed, you'll see Liquipedia in Helvetica. Though if you don't, everything defaults to Arial anyway.
So, everyone, swing on over to Liquipedia II and check out the new skin. And then contribute. If you don't contribute, Deetmar will cry.
Additionally, I'd like to announce that we will be announcing something truly awesome in the next Liquipedia Weekly.
Stay frosty, TL,
- Liquipedia staff ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/42eY9.png)
PS,
salle
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I like it, keep up the good work man. People really should start contributing more 
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Australia326 Posts
Looking gorgeous.
The individual race strategy pages look a bit cluttered though, but as more people contribute it'll organise itself methinks.
Thanks for all your work! :3
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more announcements of announcements!
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just used this and noticed new sights.
then i saw this OP. imagine my delight!
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I'd love to contribute more heavily to Liquipedia II, but it is hard at the moment for me with my schedule. Once I have a little more time I want to add some new juicy builds to the Protoss section, as our race is lacking any really good write ups.
The 1Gate FE vs Terran is well written, but besides that most of the builds are outdated or not based around the current state of the game. This is to be expected at this stage of the game though, as truly static build orders haven't really been discovered yet.
Thanks for putting in all of this work and time to making LPII so awesome!
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9071 Posts
salle is a beast , a beast of sexy
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Instant love for disciple making you use the Helvetica font.
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Hungary11305 Posts
I loved the old layout Denotate did, but this one just has a little more sex appeal!
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United States4126 Posts
I think I'm going to have to download helvetica just to see this 
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9071 Posts
It doenst look much different than that. aside from the lowercase a ofc
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I usually don't like layout changes, but this is really well done and non-obtrusive.
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Overall improvement; the new link font color bothers me a bit, though.
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lol, I was instantly reminded of this comic
looks good though
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what is the new font if not arial?
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United States11637 Posts
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United States4126 Posts
On February 25 2011 07:25 nosliw wrote:
what is the new font if not arial?
Helvetica?...
You can't see it unless you have it installed.
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Liquidpedia setting the bar once again!
Much love!
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Hyrule19224 Posts
Am I still allowed to say "first" if I'm replying on the 2nd page?
And thanks for the support guys. salle and disciple put a lot of work into the skin.
Also, contribute....always contribute.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
I just see garbage on the front page of LP  what am I doing wrong.
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9071 Posts
On February 25 2011 07:25 nosliw wrote:
what is the new font if not arial?
its helvetica. not that I like it that much either but it does take the same space as arial, or its the otherway around, so thats from the few fonts you can alternate in this way without adjusting anything else on the layout
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Man I <3 everyone who works on the LP, great stuff.
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Thanks LP staff! Arial is admittedly very boring, though I would say Helvetica is pretty close. Still an upgrade though :D
Now my Map of the Month edits will be graced with more pretties >:D
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Haha, I actually prefer the old, it's easier on the eyes x_X.
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Ah yeah, I noticed something was different! Looks great, I love the light blue
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Is it only me, or is the sc2 liquipedia getting all the love while bw liquipedia looking still same?
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Sweet! Also, great OP, very well written :>
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Liquipedia I is crying tears of salty sadness right now.
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Hungary11305 Posts
On February 25 2011 08:22 rift wrote:
Liquipedia I is crying tears of salty sadness right now.
You can just change your skin under preferences to any of the SC2 skins.
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Sweden5554 Posts
On February 25 2011 08:22 rift wrote:
Liquipedia I is crying tears of salty sadness right now.
+ Show Spoiler +You can set this skin to be the one you use in your settings on LP1 too, and I might get round to updating the Main Page for it too, so it's more alike. But don't go tell anyone, they might all want it very soon then 
EDIT: oh no. Aesop was too fast for me... =(
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On February 25 2011 07:00 Aesop wrote:
I loved the old layout Denotate did, but this one just has a little more sex appeal!
What version of mediawiki are you guys running? nvm. Found it. Next time you guys are willing to bring down the tlnet servers for a while it would be reasonable to upgrade to 1.17.
tlwiki is also the best non wikipedia wiki to grace this earth.
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Awesome, my life is complete now that I can read Liquipedia is Helvetica. It is by far my favorite font.
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I can't tell what is more sexy - the facelift or the news post :D
Once I started laughing during reading it I couldn't stop until I read the rest x)
I need to google how to install helvetica in Opera ^__^
On February 25 2011 08:38 Froadac wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2011 07:00 Aesop wrote:
I loved the old layout Denotate did, but this one just has a little more sex appeal! What version of mediawiki are you guys running? nvm. Found it. Next time you guys are willing to bring down the tlnet servers for a while it would be reasonable to upgrade to 1.17.
In your post, you forgot to include something nice about the great stuff x/
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Like the new layout - it's subtle enough that it wont interrupt the flow of using Liquipedia.
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Another announcement woo!
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On February 25 2011 07:41 Plexa wrote:I just see garbage on the front page of LP what am I doing wrong.
I understand that you're an opinionated user, but that's still not a very nice way of referring to fantasy.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Main_Page
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u gotta skate8152 Posts
Helvetica and Arial would look the same to the untrained eye. :p
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Additionally, I'd like to announce that we will be announcing something truly awesome in the next Liquipedia Weekly.
haha.
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Awesome change. Only thing I don't like about Helvetica is the capital "R". Like, I really don't like it. Arial "R" is far better.
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Is it just me or are the letters for the title bars blurry?
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MURICA15980 Posts
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You forgot a state in the 50 United States... its right next to NY, its called NJ New Jersey.
+ Show Spoiler +No I'm not sad that my state is ignored... much
edit: referring to the time thing in preferences. Or am I supposed to choose NY? o.0
also, gj on the banner. Now I want to make that my background on my cpu.
If you think its because of the DT, you are... + Show Spoiler +
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Hyrule19224 Posts
On February 25 2011 11:59 3FFA wrote:You forgot a state in the 50 United States... its right next to NY, its called NJ New Jersey. + Show Spoiler +No I'm not sad that my state is ignored... much edit: referring to the time thing in preferences. Or am I supposed to choose NY? o.0 also, gj on the banner. Now I want to make that my background on my cpu. If you think its because of the DT, you are... + Show Spoiler +
I'm from Jersey.
Gotta tell you....not missing much...
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Hyrule19224 Posts
On February 25 2011 08:38 Froadac wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2011 07:00 Aesop wrote:
I loved the old layout Denotate did, but this one just has a little more sex appeal! What version of mediawiki are you guys running? nvm. Found it. Next time you guys are willing to bring down the tlnet servers for a while it would be reasonable to upgrade to 1.17.
Would be. But that breaks the interoperability LP has with TL. We are still trying to get everything working.
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On February 25 2011 07:29 Kinky wrote:Helvetica?... You can't see it unless you have it installed.
Helvetica is what Arial looks like when viewed through consciously-ironic, box-framed glasses. True story.
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I like, I like! Keep it up LP!
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looks alot more web 2.0... which was nice about 2 years ago :D
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Can't really check ATM but looks epic! Yaaaay!
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Ball of happiness... nuff said
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Love it. Go Liquipedians!
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As a typographer I support this move, and I support disciple in his hatred for arial.
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Sweden5554 Posts
On February 25 2011 11:50 Count9 wrote:
Is it just me or are the letters for the title bars blurry?
They are indeed.
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new look makes it much more enjoyable to browse, good job
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This looks amazing. Very sleek and clean interface (=
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Sweden5554 Posts
On February 25 2011 11:59 3FFA wrote:
also, gj on the banner. Now I want to make that my background on my cpu.
+ Show Spoiler +
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So sexy. LP was already really sleek, but it's been beautified even further. Well done to all involved
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Looks really good. Keep up the good work!
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On February 26 2011 01:21 salle wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2011 11:59 3FFA wrote:
also, gj on the banner. Now I want to make that my background on my cpu.
+ Show Spoiler +
:o thanks Salle are you really paying them for each time they say your name? o.0
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Sweden5554 Posts
On February 26 2011 09:55 3FFA wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2011 01:21 salle wrote:On February 25 2011 11:59 3FFA wrote:
also, gj on the banner. Now I want to make that my background on my cpu.
+ Show Spoiler + :o thanks Salle are you really paying them for each time they say your name? o.0
You're welcome and I have no idea what you're talking about. ¬_¬'''
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I liked the old one more...
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Sweden5554 Posts
On February 26 2011 22:29 Taawus wrote:
I liked the old one more...
It's still there and as pretty as it ever was.
1 Log in,
2 click on my preferences,
3 click on the skins tab,
4 choose liquipediatwo from the radio button options,
5 click save,
6 ???,
7 profit!
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EPT
