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Should we change the formatting of backtick markdown elements?
No - it is just fine as it is.
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Suggestions for a better headline graphic
Based on Crow's Foot notation:
Symbol reference:
image source
Intended meanings as drawn (artistic licence employed):
One (and only one) Database Administrators site
Many questions
Zero or many ...
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Should we change the formatting of backtick markdown elements?
It is jarring, but taking the background colour away entirely leaves it hard to tell what is code and what isn't:
I think we should consider a third option, ether a lighter grey:
Or ...
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DBA's updated site theme is ready for testing!
Now a separate discussion: Suggestions for a better headline graphic
ERD-style decoration
Before:
After:
Crow's foot (or transitioning to IDEF1X) would have been arguably more in keeping with the ...
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Should we change the formatting of backtick markdown elements?
Yes I would prefer this to be rendered with a monospace font only (no grey background).
Without the CAPS/TitleCase it looks like this:
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DBA SE graphic design: Who did it, and what else have they done?
The designer was Jin Yang (user link):
See Our Designer in Residence: Jin Yang on the SO blog.
Related dba.meta Q & A:
Design for Database Administrators
New Design Launched
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DBA's updated site theme is ready for testing!
Thanks Catija.
I think it would be handy to have a one-click navigation back to the main site from the meta page in the left nav bar:
If you think that is a good idea, maybe even add a link to 'Meta'...
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status-completed
Site title is too small
Old view:
The site title "Database Administrators" seems a little lost now (compared with nearby text):
Can the text be scaled up a bit within the ...
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DBA's updated site theme is ready for testing!
User name breaks weirdly in search results
Before:
Now:
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Suggestions for a better headline graphic
How about something like:
I'm sure the nice folks from Stackexchange can produce specs with exact dimensions and suchlike. If necessary I've got Adobe CS6, visio etc. and could knock up a model that'...
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ERD Elements
Instead of having the ERD circles hanging in the air, they could link up to the top bar, the side bar and the question section:
ERD Elements Thin (incl. Larger Title)
ERD Elements ...
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New mobile navigation got vertical scroll bar
Seems to have been restored at 17:48 UTC, January 23. See here more information: What happened to the top bar and it's restored now on meta.SE
Quoting from the accepted answer by Shog9:
There's a ...
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Rendering/markdown bug with bullet and code formatting
Thanks for reporting. This is indeed an issue around markdown rendering. We're using two different markdown renderers - markdown-it for the client-side preview and Markdig for server-side processing. ...
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What kind of DB diagram is the menu at the top of the page?
Looking back, the main place I see this discussed previously is as part of our graduation proces:
Design for Database Administrators
It seems the designer drew inspiration from various ER diagram ...
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