Board Thread:News and Information/@comment-26143371-20151228154440/@comment-26143371-20151229232407

The problem about the opacity value is that it's a little different for everyone. Just like colors it varies from screen to screen. I've changed the value to 0.95, let me know if that's better or worse!

At least a background image actually exists now on mobile devices; my iPad just had a blank background until now By default there is a breakpoint at 1083px (acutal value might be slightly different) screen width. Everything below that didn't show a background-image at all.

So is that another big thing off the To-Do list? ;) Actually only part of it, but probably the easiest with the most effect. I still need to do some more automation, but that should be doable. On the other hand the main-page is also something I have in the back of my mind. It doesn't exactly look "clean" and organized to me. It uses a lot of tables for page-layout and if you've ever looked at the source of it you've seen that it's a big mess. And well, as already mentioned in another thread (I not going to search it now) there are other elements that will require some design considerations. Mainly infoboxes, but also novboxes and amboxes when (or if ) the time comes at which they will be cleaned up and reorganized.

So you'll be doing this on a regular basis, as in when the splashscreen changes (so when every new event starts)? Yes, that was the idea.

I can't honestly remember what the old one was, other than predominantly green. Maybe some buldings on it? A screenshot repeating itself a few times in both directions

I'm really not concerned that you can't see all of the image on every screen, that's really not the point of a background image (be in the background, set a mood/feel for the entire site). It helps bring the current theme of an ongoing special event to every page, and to the website as a whole. I like that.[...] This definitely says we are in the Winter 2015 Event, and if it were other events, would shout that, without distracting from the data presented on a given page Thanks, couldn't have put it better myself :)

As you're all agreeing, I'll do some more considerations on how to best reduce the filesize for smaller screens. Currently it's around 1MB which is kind of heavy, especially for those who have limited amount of highspeed-bandwidth on their mobile devices. Unfortunately I can't rely on Wikia's scaling algorithm. My orignal 2728×1536 image is practically the same filesize as the downscaled 1024×577 version!