Template talk:ToP

Template Redesign (somewhat)
Like the usual several-month delay before doing something I promised several months before, I finally got around to trying some new ideas to redesign the templates that we use for game data.

As they are now, the colors really do look so bland, and the templates themselves often stretch the pages too much while causing too much whitespace. So I finally found the most efficient way to make collapsibles within collapsibles. (Oh how obvious it should have been.) We can extend this collapsible capability to the (mostly nonexistant) Soma Build pages for Tales of Hearts, since that was what caused me to try to get collapsible functions onto this wiki in the first place... and I gave up trying to complete those pages when I couldn't get nested collapsibles to work.

So now that the collapsible templates work as I had imagined initially, this is our chance to decide on a fixed set of colors for all of these templates, so they don't look so monotone. The templates for the locations within Symphonia and Abyss were done well (though I would like to consolidate the code with the game data templates for future ease-of-use), and we could apply some of those colors here. The rounded corners... I'm not sure if they look too tacky or not, but if we go back to squared corners, we might want to change the infobox templates to stay consistent with each other. And the border outline for the template, is it too thick? Should it have a different color?

Please let your opinions on the overall design be known! I know there are a few of you lurkers around, and yes we need your thoughts too.

Now with the Phantasia game templates as a whole, I decided to unify them into a single template. Because the content appears collapsed automatically when the page is finished loading, the whitespace issue is not a problem anymore, and most pages with any one of the templates usually has all of them anyway. I want to start filling out the "data" sections for each of the games, even if we don't have any pages for those things yet, so we have ready-made page titles for when those pages can be started. And I shouldn't have to remind anyone that we are not obliged to follow existing fan-translations for terms or items on this wiki. While DeJap might list Apple Gummies as "supplies", more recent official localizations would use "tools", and this wiki will follow the latter.

Byakuren Hijiri (talk) 18:31, November 24, 2009 (UTC)