Generally I had troubles initially by using preformated templates designed by somebody else.
1) Since I always want to do my own thing I eventually end up frustrated that I have to change too many things to suit my idea.
2) A lot of those have external wiki templates stored in template forms on the wiki. They are extremely hard to find (still no clue how you can look for them without twisting the search engine like hell), and of course you can't change them. They also puzzle me a great deal on how they work. So... I end up coding my own layout like dirty without external template styles and stuff. Which is a (organized) mess, but well. So yeah, now I do my own thing really. And I'm happier that way.
3) Damn tabs. Want to put tabs inside tabs but that doesn't seem possible with the tab wiki template I'm using, sadly.
Oh yeah, that too. I have one like that in mine and it's driving me crazy. Fortunately it doesn't screw up the whole ordeal, but still seems to apply a weird font formatting by default, forcing me to reset it for every <div> layer.
I honestly can't stand wiki and HTML formatting. Most of the stuff I use is blatant CSS 1 or 3.
1) Since I always want to do my own thing I eventually end up frustrated that I have to change too many things to suit my idea.
2) A lot of those have external wiki templates stored in template forms on the wiki. They are extremely hard to find (still no clue how you can look for them without twisting the search engine like hell), and of course you can't change them. They also puzzle me a great deal on how they work. So... I end up coding my own layout like dirty without external template styles and stuff. Which is a (organized) mess, but well. So yeah, now I do my own thing really. And I'm happier that way.
3) Damn tabs. Want to put tabs inside tabs but that doesn't seem possible with the tab wiki template I'm using, sadly.
(08-08-2016, 08:09 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote: Making a mistake and nit being able to find said mistake that's screwing up the entire format of the template.
Oh yeah, that too. I have one like that in mine and it's driving me crazy. Fortunately it doesn't screw up the whole ordeal, but still seems to apply a weird font formatting by default, forcing me to reset it for every <div> layer.
(08-08-2016, 08:18 PM)Kilieit Wrote: I can't make myself care about using fancy templates for my pages. >_>
I did that for my tumblr pages. It took me weeks. I know I could repeat it for the RPC ones, but...
Eeeh. EEEEHHHHHHH.
CSS is designed for this kind of fancy stuff. Wiki markup... is not. I already knew HTML, so tumblr's CSS was really easy for me to learn; but knowing another wiki markup (I used to admin a WoW RP server wikia) has actually impacted my ability to work with the RPC negatively. There are a thousand tiny differences, and being "so close but so far away" so many times when trying to do something as basic as "add an infobox to my page" (yeah...) is a singularly frustrating experience.
Enjoy my flat text pages. Visit my tumblr for anything else. xD
I honestly can't stand wiki and HTML formatting. Most of the stuff I use is blatant CSS 1 or 3.
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