Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-34410299-20180127212012/@comment-9605025-20180127232951

Well, if you need help with specific aspects, feel free to ask. Since you have so far just asked for advice, here it goes.
 * 1) If you really want to get into customizing your templates, I suggest you also learn about CSS. Others may additionally suggest JS and Lua as good topics but I think those can wait until you need more advanced features.
 * 2) Continue learning about the MediaWiki markup language and HTML. The more you know, the more you will be able to do.
 * 3) Note that MediaWiki doesn't actually allow you to use HTML directly. Instead, it provides HTML-like tags which it then translates into actual HTML. Because of this, there are some limitations. See Available HTML tags.
 * 4) MediaWiki.org is a good reference that will provide more details than most of Wikia's help pages. Note, however, that Wikia uses a modified version of 1.19 so not everything mentioned on that site will be available. Similarly, there may be certain features used by Wikia that are not part of basic MediaWiki. In particular, I would suggest looking into:
 * 5) *Parser Functions (Wikia's Help Page)
 * 6) *String Functions
 * 7) *Magic Words (Wikia's Help Page)
 * 8) *Tables (Wikia's Help Page)
 * 9) *Images (Wikia's Help Page)
 * 10) You may find it useful to know about VisualEditor, Infobox Builder, and the classic editor.

I hope this helps.