User blog comment:Davidchola2/On the Renovation of the Website's Visuals: Part I/@comment-4080028-20151004082314

Ohhhhhhh man, I'm late to a meeting on my own wiki, huh? Hehe, oops. Sorry guys. ^_^;

Anyway, now that I'm here I'll try and throw in my opinions on the matter at hand. Firstly, I do apologize for any unpleasant experiences you guys may have had with the current background. Honestly, it wasn't meant to be temporary, but something I thought would fit the theme of the wiki and look nice on the eyes (as well as go along with the color scheme I planned out and everything.) So I do admit I'm pretty attached to it and don't have the slightest problem with it, but I can see why the borders for the tiles look like an issue to you guys, and for that I will and do apologize. Though as mentioned before, the other option I could have gone with would have looked worse, since I experimented with it for a while before settling on what you see now.

If I had my way, I'd keep the background as it is now, but as this is run by a community, I'm more than willing to find a compromise among our pirate democracy of sorts. If we must switch backgrounds, I give a highly enthusiastic vote for the one with the Straw Hats' bounty posters, as that looks the coolest to me and I'm simply running off of the cool factor alone here. Though I suppose if I went back to relying on a theme for the wiki, I'd stick with the map background. Everything else is amazing of course and I commend David for finding/creating these suggested images, but the map and the posters are by far my favorites.

The word mark and navigation bar however are definitely encouraged by me. I feel the new word mark is vastly superior to the word mark we have now, and I love the Straw Hats' personal jolly roger symbols being used for our navigation bar. It gives us an extra amount of bold flair that I feel most other wikis I've seen don't possess. I know many of you are all for these changes, so if 13th is cool with them too, I don't see why we shouldn't implement them right away.

The background though, well... again, I'm weighing my sentimentality against practicality; it's not an easy decision for me to make. Though I get the feeling that as a responsible manager of this wiki, I should go with majority vote in the end and have us go with the background we as a whole wiki want most.

But anyway, those are just my two cents on the whole matter. Glad I discovered this when I did, or else I may have missed it entirely.