Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32354545-20170818034743

Hello, friends. I have made a wiki called the New Starter Pages Wiki at newstarter. The content is precisely what it comes with by default, that is, everything from starter, the original Starter Pages Wiki from which every new wiki receives its pages. But I hope to make changes to the pages to represent sensible changes that should be made to Starter Pages Wiki itself, which is locked down from editing except for Staff.

On New Starter Pages Wiki, I have made two changes to c:newstarter:Template:Navbox and its documentation, that I hope will simplify the creation of navboxes for new users without overwhelming them.

First, I have updated the navbox headers to use  rather than CSS coloration. This makes them match the coloration of the top bar of any wiki, on which the wordmark is found. It will also match portable infoboxes.

Second, I have rewritten the documentation of that page to encourage copying the entire template verbatim to a new location and then editing it in simple steps, rather than use of the template to create new navboxes via a template call. My logic is:
 * 1) A template call to the default Template:Navbox can only permit for a navbox with one section, which is restrictive
 * 2) A modification to Template:Navbox that permits for more sections in a template call must introduce an   parser function, which would complicate the code further than should be the case on Starter Pages Wiki anyway.

You can compare the existing default template to my modified version. The coloration changes aren't terrifically dramatic with the given skin, but rest assured that my version automatically recolors for compatibility with all themes, even those with light text on a dark background.

What are your thoughts? 