Domain Pages

Besides games, a domain has pages of its own: the rules, “about us”, a F.A.Q., contacts. They live at /page/<identifier> and are edited in the pages studio: in the admin bar — “Domain” → “Pages”.

A page used to be edited on the page itself, and to create a new one you had to type an address that did not exist yet. Now it is a screen of its own, and the page has become just a page — there is no editing form on it for anybody.

At the top — the bar about the page as a whole: the page picker, its address, the “not saved” mark, and the “Save”, “New page” and “Delete page” buttons.

Below — two halves:

• on the left, the editor — the same visual editor as for tasks, with a source mode;
• on the right, the live preview — the whole page, with the domain's header, menu and styling. It redraws itself half a second after you stop typing.

The preview has switches of its own: the language, full width or as on a phone, redraw, and open on the site in a new tab.

The preview is drawn through your eyes: it also shows the admin bar, which a player will not have. To see the page exactly as a player does, open it on the site — with the arrow button.

The “New page” button asks only for an identifier — which is the tail of the address: Latin letters, digits, a hyphen and an underscore, no longer than 32 characters. The future address is shown right under the field.

The page is created empty and at once, without waiting for “Save”.

Everything you type goes into a draft in your browser — together with every language of the page. Close the tab, crash the browser, go to another page and come back — the text is still there.

When the open page is shown from a draft, a yellow bar stands on top with the time of the edit and the “Take the server's version” button: it throws the draft away and brings back what is stored.

The draft lives in your browser. On another computer it is not there; the only dependable copy is a saved page.

“Save” first shows the “Changes before saving” window — line by line, for every changed language. Only the languages you touched are written: two people may be working on one page.

A page has two different ways of becoming multilingual, and they do not mix.

• The domain dictionary. The page stays one, while its phrases are translated as “source → translation” pairs on the "Translation" screen. This is the default way.
• A copy of its own per language. A separate text for that language — when the other language needs not the same page but a different one. A copy always beats the dictionary: if it exists, the dictionary is not applied to the page in that language.

The language bar — the language picker, “Add a language”, “Remove this copy” — does not appear straight away: first tick “Do not translate this page with the dictionary”. While the page is translated by the dictionary there is no point in adding copies, and the bar is not there.

“Remove this copy” is an edit, not a deletion: the copy disappears on saving, and the dictionary starts working for that language again.

“Delete page” removes it at once, without waiting for “Save” — together with every language copy and translation. A page with the same identifier can be created again, but the translations will not come back.

• Domain Translation — the dictionary that translates pages and the menu.
• Configuring the domain menu — how to put a link to a page into the menu.