User talk:Thor2000

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Welcome to Central Wikia, Thor2000!

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Enjoy! -- BlueDevil (Talk) 15:17, 1 May 2009

Templates
There's a couple of schools of thought about Templates at Wikia.

The comic sites use templates as an expanded infobox, so all the information that is put onto the page can be categorized and referenced later.

Most of the other Wikis don't do things this way, but use a template to hide complicated code from every day editors.

So I'd say the best way to start is to make a list of the things you want users to fill in. Like for a character, there's height and weight and hair color, as well as name and first appearance.

From there, what I always did when I started making templates was to copy one from another site to ours, and mess with it until it looked the way I wanted. (Sometimes easier said than done).

A couple of places that I always referred to in the beginning are The Help Wiki's Templates Article, their links, and MediaWiki's help guide on templates.

Hope this helps! :)

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 16:38, 27 May 2009 (UTC)