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It has bothered me for quite a while how the three sections on the main page (Welcome, Featured and Discover/Get Involved) are all different widths, and don't fully take advantage of the entire width of the main page, creating a slightly chaotic whole. Now that Vector 2022 plays with those sections, I figured it was time to fix how these sections get presented to users. What I've worked out isn't exactly a fix to every issue, but it at least rebalances the elements to look less clunky. See lines 1-19 of User:Wauteurz/common.css. These achieve the following:

• Welcome gets widened to use 100% of the width available to it. The satellite imagemap is aligned to the rightmost side of the element.
• The Featured-carousel gets centred in the main page since it can't easily be enlarged or widened, and its menu items are shifted over accordingly.

The only issue that remains, is that Vector 2022 can freely change the font size of all text. Ideally, this is disabled in the JCarousel since the 'large' font size pushes the description out of view most of the time.

Ideally, these tweaks are embedded in the respective elements directly ({{mapbanner}} and the CSS jcarousel-class), but I'm not entirely sure how to go about this, and lack the permission to make changes where I know what to change. These changes are non-destructive and have held up several changes to the main page's content, hence why I've withheld announcing them. If someone with the correct rights (presumably bureaucrats?) and technical know-how can help me out with this, then that'd be much appreciated!
― Wauteurz (talk) 15:00, 23 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

For the visually inclined, this is how the main page looks in Vector 2022 with the above changes applied. ― Wauteurz (talk) 15:05, 23 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

I'm not seeing a big difference but I support. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:46, 6 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Ikan Kekek: It isn't a big difference, no. It's simply widening existing elements and centring them so that the main page gets filled up a bit better. I don't have a solid way to change the JCarousel at present and I would need some assistance from people more knowledgable than me to fix that. For {{Mapbanner}}, I also made more or less the same suggestion here. If supported, I could roll that out first thing tomorrow. ― Wauteurz (talk) 01:13, 6 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

• Support changes as per proposal. //shb (t | c | m) 23:04, 5 May 2025 (UTC)Reply