Forum:Era icons

Hey, I'm an admin and bureaucrat on Mass Effect Fanon and I thought it'd be a great idea to add era icons. I've heard them called by other names, but that's the name that I easily remember. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, era icons are the icons that appear on the top right corner of articles. I was wondering if there were any users here who would be willing to help as I'm very confused on how to make it. Also, I don't need many as they are more for awards than eras. -Bluethunder Contact 23:02, August 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * I can try and explain it a little, but it would help if you tell us how handy you are with creating templates, parser functions, DIV boxes, editing the CSS sheets, etc. It's not that complicated, but it does take a while if we have to tell you exactly what to do.
 * Anyway, basically, those era icons are just images in a div box placed in a fixed position next to the page title. You can add anything to that div box, even text (for example, see what I did at Ibanez Guitar Wiki here). What you have to do first is create a template that exactly looks like the thing you would like to have in the top right corner. The second step is making it display over there when you add it to a page.
 * So what you have to do first now is creating a template that works the way you want it. For example, if you type in   it outputs a box with those two awards/images. Make sure isn't too wide (the page title has to be displayed next to it). For examples check out how it's done on Wookieepedia and the Vault. After that, we can help you positioning it. Note: Please tell in advance if you also want it to display text like on Ibanez Guitar Wiki. BramTalk/IGW 06:25, August 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've been poking around The Vault and I think I got the essence of it, but does it really require a javascript to function properly? On another wiki I saw it done by a absolute position div, but that of course doesn't work if sitenotice is used. I was thinking something simple like a div positioned relatively to the 'article' div id. I was surprised to see on The Vault that it requires edits in Common.css and Common.js Duskey ( talk ) 17:31, August 2, 2010 (UTC)