Board Thread:Castlevania Wiki General Discussion/@comment-3200351-20140531153629

I've been wanting to raise this topic for a while. I think our current character and enemy templates serve their purpose just fine, but when I look at other wikis I can't help but be a little envious at the well designed templates they use.

I think updating the current templates might make the wiki look more professional, which is always a good thing in my opinion. Of course it's a lot of work coming up with a new design and implementing it on every page that requires it, but I don't mind taking this on as an extra project.

Examples of character and enemy templates I think look good:

http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Templates

http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Stat_Templates

Features I think we should implement:

- Every game should have its own color code. Meaning every template such as characters, enemies, infoboxes, etc. each should have their own unique color assigned to them. For example, CV1 is red, while CV2 is green, and CV3 is purple.

- In case of infobox templates that contain a lot of text (usually offical descriptions), we should come up with a design that completely fits on the page, and doesn't require clicking to expand.

- We should include an option so that certain parts of a character template are hidden if they are not used. For example, if a character's age isn't known,  the parameter "age" shouldn't be visible. Usually,  these empty parameters  tend to get filled up with "N/A", which I personally think makes the infobox look sloppy.

Of course we shouldn't just copy template designs from other wikis, but perhaps we can all contribute our ideas for a good design and the features we would like to see included. I'll take all the feedback from this topic into account and base the design upon that information.

So, please let me know any opinions, ideas, requests, etc.          