Forum:Need help with layout

Hello again, I have a new idea for my layout, but I have no idea how to do it. I wanna change a box on my main page. To make my question more clear I've created and uploaded a picture of how I want it (I hope uploading this pic is ok?).

Could you please compare the current box and the box on the picture and tell me how I can make it look like on the picture?



As you can see, every header has 4 rows. 3 rows containing articles I picked to be listed and a 4th row which automatically shows the latest articles in that category. Is this possible to make? If yes, how? -- Zantam03 21:30, February 28, 2010 (UTC)

Changed my mind a little, instead of four vertical rows I think it's better to have just three. -- Zantam03 09:49, March 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * I quickly coded that table for you (in the 4 column style, I can easily reduce it to 3 if you want) and put it at the bottom of your front page, using the stock colors "Gray" and "Silver" for the table headers. I basically coded up 1 large table that takes up 100% of the page width with 4 columns which take 25% of the page width each, one of them being a seperate mini-table for the New Articles.


 * Each category (Wei, Wu, Shu, Other) makes up 1 of the table's 4 rows, more can be added easily by just copying the according part of the row code again as I did at the end. All links are included as you planned, feel free to change them however you want, should be pretty easy to do. Maybe the code looks a bit weird and spaced out, but I simply took code from my own wiki, which is more optimized to the minimum code necessary and I generally prefer to space code out much more than most people do, to make it more readable.


 * The only thing I didn't manage to do was the automatical updating of the "New Articles", since I wouldn't know of a template or magic word for that function. Maybe a magic word or a special script for that exists already on some wiki (which is rather doubtable though), but I simply wouldn't know of any easy way to implement that, so you'd have to do it by hand for now or something...


 *  ( C rynsos Talk 14:26, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * What about the Special:NewPages RSS feed? 14:41, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Doubt that would work, since from how I see it, he wants dynamic in-page updates of new pages within each of the according categories listed in the table... I see no way how that special page would be able to do that.  ( C rynsos Talk 16:01, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Crynsos! The table looks very good! I don't know what I'll be doing with the tables on the right yet.. I'll think about that. I actually like it that it's so spaced out, it's more readable and easier for me to understand. I'll have a closer look at it tomorrow because it's getting a bit late here, but thanks ;-) -- Zantam03 22:17, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually, Ose refers to something that is perfectly doable. Special:Newpages has an RSS feed that can be embedded elsewhere on the wiki with tags - help page for this is here. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 05:43, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that clears it up and seems rather well-working now. But I don't see a way to filter it by articles added into a certain category, so I guess it has to stay how it is for now. (Displaying the 3 latest article edits in the (Main) namespace.)  ( C rynsos Talk 13:14, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

I think I'll just remove the box on the right if it can't automatically show the latest articles in that category. btw.. I tried to replace the old table with the new one, but it won't let itself be placed next to the battles table... how come?

btw, is it also possible to use vertical rows without using a table? -- Zantam03 21:35, March 3, 2010 (UTC)