User talk:Couchpotato013

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Revision as of 20:32, 24 July 2009

Hi Couch!

Could you start using preview and edit a whole page at a time if you want to make many small changes? Because Special:Recentchanges is full of you right now, and while I'm sure you deserve the attention, that's not very useful when I want to know about the other edits that have taken place. Thank you! --Mendel 08:42, 24 July 2009 (CDT)

I've been trying, but the preview doesn't always show what the page will show. Some tables preview as a line of text, rather than an actual table, but will show up fine on the actual page.

One thing that's been bugging me is on the Guardian/HolyKnight page at the skill Divinity, <center> is displayed on the page, but not the preview and I haven't been able to get rid of it. --Couchpotato013 09:59, 24 July 2009 (CDT)

Ok, here's why: you never closed the <center> tag in the section above. I have a few questions/suggestions:

1. It would be better to make a single page for the non-exclusive spells, that way the missing info has to be updated in one place only; currently, it's duplicated
2. I'd like to un-center everything because I feel centering the information makes it harder to read.
3. You're spacing things out much with extra <br /> tags, is that needed?
4. I'd like to stick with one table style (the grey one) and make a .css class for it if the admins would agree (else we could make a template)
5. The blue headlines should be talked over with the admins, and, again, a solution can be found via .css that doesn't require a <span> in every headline

What do you think? --Mendel 13:12, 24 July 2009 (CDT)

1. I agree. Having 1 page for nonexclusive spells makes it easier on the editing. Is there a way to embed the contents of another page though to have the information side by side still? From the discussions that I have seen, people aren't aware of the nonexclusive skills. Some people default to Guardian because they can continue to upgrade Heal (and Rejuvenate), while currently both classes still get the other healing type skill (which is never mentioned). If it's not possible to embed the contents of another page, then go ahead and split the information.

2,3,4, and 5. Go ahead and change the formatting to what you think is right. All the formatting is copy and pastes from the cleric skills section, and then modified with new information or column headers.

The <br> tag in the stub was to make the notice stand out a bit more, but the spacing it made is to big for my liking. Without having something similar to carriage return, I believe that others would just assume it's the normal stub message and scroll through it, like everyone does with a EULA.

My programming experiences are Pascal and C++. So I can read a majority of code, but not write it. So .css files are beyond what I know, unless I can throw it in to Frontpage or something, which I doubt will work.

Happen to know any WYSIWYG offline wiki editors? I think I used to have one about a year back but lost it during a reinstall.

--Couchpotato013 14:03, 24 July 2009 (CDT)

I hear some people use "WikiEd". You get a simple paragraph break by leaving a blank line. Yes, you can include other pages. I'm going to do the changes. --Mendel 15:32, 24 July 2009 (CDT)