Festipedia talk:Day Log
Add topicJust a few informal notes as to the way I am currently formatting pages.
No comments on text or tables, except please try and use the version 2 tables where appropriate.
You may want to remember the <br clear="all"> command which forces a clean break between paragraphs and pictures
Having played with different picture sizes and text font sizes, have now standardized my amends to adjust size to be no bigger than 800px. This is on grounds that most users will have screen at 1024px wide, and at 800 ensures full pix can be seen without scrolling off to right.
I am trying to adhere to a std format for editing them into the text such as this below. I prefer to keep all pix to left side - enables printing better.
[[Image:FRCo-Interactive 2002-14.jpg|left|frame|800px|Blanche & Linda Double Heading an Up train<br>
*Date: during the Interactive event, 2002 *Photo: [[FR Co.]]]]
<br clear="all">
Bottom line - See also -
Please place categories at end of list. Placing before or in middle causes a screw on the display
Remove A User Friendly Index - this is no longer standard on pages!
- A couple of comments on the above... Old style tables are deprecated and should not be used. I may need to withdraw support for this style of tables completely soon - it causes a number of problems for the parser which converts wikitext to html. Conversion of existing old style tables to new style tables would be much appreciated. Moving on to pictures, I think we need some discussion on this. The style guide suggests that pictures should generally be on the right in thumbnail form with no size specified, thereby respecting the user's preferences. Printing should be fine regardless of photo placement. If there is a problem, try the "printable version" link on the left of the page. If that doesn't work either, let me have details of the problem and I will investigate. The break at the end of your "standard" picture layout should not be needed if using thumbnail images rather than pushing to a larger size. I am willing to consider changes to the style guide but any such should be by consensus. Note that, for an article to be featured on the main page, it must broadly conform to the style guide - more about this when I get around to writing it up properly! --Peter_Harrison (talk) 15:38, 30 December 2007
- Comment noted - please look at Bron Madoc and User:Keith/Sandbox_-_1-a - please amend second accrdingly --2007-12-31T02:14:01
- I agree that doesn't look good. The style guide should be ignored if the results are poor. Part of the reason for my comment above is that you seemed to be going for a different universal standard to that in the style guide. Any universal standard should be discussed and the style guide updated first. Looking at this page, one of the photos (the bottom one) is a duplicate of the photo in the infobox and I don't think the other two add anything to the article. As far as I can see, all they show is different locomotives in the same location. If they are to be included at all, I would put them in a gallery. That, however, is my opinion, not a ruling. I may have a play with the sandbox page later but it depends on what we do with the children today! --Peter_Harrison (talk) 10:06, 1 January 2008
An amend on the Image format above - After consultation, no longer put in Date and Photographer as seperate information - ie. form is now:-
[[Image:FRCo-Interactive 2002-14.jpg|left|frame|800px|Blanche & Linda Double Heading an Up train<br>
ensuring the information removed, is attached to the original Image file. In fact in some cases, all the information should be on the Image file - this comes especially with early material loaded, which has none --@@@@