Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-27234821-20151201035545/@comment-24668482-20151202163708

3. Collection Items

There really isn't much difference here. I've moved down the paragraph about where to find the items, in general, from the intro to this section instead.

So I'll put my gereral section structure argument here. This is 100% personal preference, and I am happy for you to disagree and continue with all information before table if that is your preference.

I just don't like 'the following is a list of..... 20 paragraphs of text... the actual table'. I prefer tables to just have an anchoring sentence 'this table shows this information' followed by the table, where possible. And I feel like the 'the following...' sentence is that anchoring sentence. It introduces the table, so should be directly before it, if possible.

(on pages that are basically just giant tables, and end up getting 100 notes added to them over time, it never works out that way, but anyway...)

I also just don't like the look of the table followed directly by a new heading. It always feels like something should be there after the table. Going straight to a heading from a table seems to negate the  extra spacing that goes before the new heading. It doesn't look that bad on the right hand side of screen, but on the left, where the title text of next heading is, it seems like it is too claustraphobic between the table and the heading (and adding a line break there creates a giant gap, causing the opposite problem to occur, with right side looking like a large blank area). That and the underlining of the heading 1, which stretches across the page, matched directly above with the final line of the table border, just doesn't sit well with me when I view the page.

This is to do with the format of the heading 1 itself, and could actually be changed by writing some custom CSS for the wiki instead of using the default CSS (i.e. changing the underline, or adding more padding). But changing the site-wide CSS is more effort than just putting a paragraph of text there (i.e. laziness on my part).

Which is why I went with: intro (how collection items found in general); anchoring sentence; table; paragraphs giving more details on one aspect of info in table. As opposed to having all text before table.