I fell down a rabbit hole today and found that none of the profession pages are consistent on how they display their main recipe pages (also they're all terribly outdated). In an effort to get some consistency to help make updates easier, I'm reviewing all of the layouts and combining them to what, personally, makes the most sense. Also, I found a really old relevant discussion: Naming of Recipe Subpages.
I'm testing this out on the Leatherworking patterns page since that's been my pet project. A few notes here. I added the proficiency nav on the top right. This seems to be present in at least half of the other profession recipe pages. Alchemy recipes and Tailoring patterns have alternate versions of this nav. I'm partial to including the "by type" and "by skill" division on the Alchemy page. Aside from the nav, I moved the faction and reputation related sections to the bottom. I added the ajax lazyload for each of the proficiency levels so that all recipes are accessible from this pages without having to click through to multiple pages.
I tweaked the Apprentice leatherworking patterns page as my second test. I added the same nav and removed the old footer nav, just to keep things simple with only one nav having to be updated. I also added a short blurb at the top to allow the page to stand alone (further reasoning found in this thread). I'm partial to the color coded skill cutoffs, but I've seen other layouts with a wide variety of column headings. I'd prefer to keep it as simple and relevant as possible. Something like Skill, Item, Category, Ingredients (or Materials?), and Source.
Anyone have any feedback before I go hog wild updating all the recipe overview and skill pages? --
Alianin T • C 00:44, 26 September 2017 (UTC)