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MortenMacFly:
Indeed... I missed that link. :oops:


--- Quote from: Alpha on October 16, 2011, 12:50:57 pm ---I am sure you are not the only person who would miss it; how would you suggest making it more visible?  (All the ways I came up with to make the link more visible are too obtrusive.)

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I could imagine a structure like this for the main page (as you've done it mostly):

[FAQ_MAIN]
 Section 1 -> links to sub-page 1
   FAQ1  -> links to FAQ1 on sub-page 1
   FAQ2  -> links to FAQ2 on sub-page 1
   (...)
 Section 2
   FAQ(n)  -> links to FAQ(n) on sub-page 2
   FAQ(n+1)  -> links to FAQ(n+1) on sub-page 2
 (...)


...and then the sub-pages:


[FAQ_SECTION1]
 Return to FAQ -> link to [FAQ_MAIN]
 Section 1
   FAQ1  -> links to FAQ1 on this sub-page 1 (below)
   FAQ2  -> links to FAQ2 on this sub-page 1 (below)
 (...)

  FAQ1: What is...?!
  Answer: 42.

...and so on. This way you'd have a main page where you can read all section, questions, then jump to a sub-page either directly to the answer to your FAQ or the index of the sub-page.

Just my 2 cents... ;-)

oBFusCATed:
OFF: What will happen with the old links? Would they still work?

Alpha:

--- Quote from: MortenMacFly on October 16, 2011, 01:28:52 pm ---I could imagine a structure like this for the main page (as you've done it mostly) ...

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So what you are suggesting is that I move the few remaining questions I left on the Main FAQ to their own subpage as well?


--- Quote from: MortenMacFly on October 16, 2011, 01:28:52 pm ---...and then the sub-pages ...

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Is the only change here moving "Return to FAQ." above the table of contents?
I could additionally increase its size to make the text more visible.  (Or would that just look strange?)


--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on October 16, 2011, 03:51:13 pm ---OFF: What will happen with the old links? Would they still work?

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I (am fairly certain that I) have already and fixed all the links on other wiki-pages to point correctly.  External links that point directly to a question will be redirected to the top of the main FAQ page.

oBFusCATed:
Can we have some kind of redirects?

Alpha:

--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on October 16, 2011, 07:13:04 pm ---Can we have some kind of redirects?

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From what I can tell, the only type of redirect I could set up would be if it was a completely different page the external link was referencing.  In this situation, an HTML anchor causes the browser to jump to the correct line; because the anchor does not exist (anymore), the browser defaults to the top of the page (without requesting anything further from the wiki server).
However, I could change the index on the main page so that each question is an anchor -> external links will jump to the question in the index of the main page; the viewer would then click on the link to see the actual question.


--- Quote from: MortenMacFly on October 16, 2011, 01:28:52 pm ---...and then the sub-pages ...

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I am curious, would the sub-pages look better if they did not use a primary heading (which essentially duplicates the title of the page) before the questions?

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