Forum:Navigation Template size

I don't edit here often, but I wouldn't mind from time to time. One thing I notice here that could use quite a bit of help is the rather large sizes of all the navigation templates all over the wiki. Most of these templates are larger than the page content themselves. I realize that most/all of them are collapsed initially, but it is still quite shocking to open a navigation template to see it expand a full page or more.

I would like to discuss ways to size these templates down as much as possible while still keeping the information in a readable format.

Please check out my proposed change to Template:OoSNav in my user space here. This is just one example but drops the size of that particular navigation box down by 50% while still retaining a readable format.

I've done a lot of navigation boxes across Wikia and am fairly skilled in CSS and template organization. Although I don't have all the time in the world to help, I will be willing to get some of these started as working examples to hopefully streamline the rest. You can see another style example here and here. I'd like to know what the community here thinks of this proposal. Rappy 00:32, November 19, 2011 (UTC)