Forum:Infoboxes - simple tutorial or program?

I think we need some more infoboxes in the |Doctor Who Wiki that I contribute to as well as a few additions to some of the existing infoboxes.

what I can do: change colors of existing infoboxes change wording of the titles of fields

what I can't do yet: make all-new infoboxes add fields to existing infoboxes

so far my brain remains stubbornly left-hemisphered. even after looking at the infobox tutorial at Wikipedia, this remains mysteroius to me.

can anyone point me to a very simple guide? or even an online DIY infobox maker? thanks in advance. --***Stardizzy*** 00:58, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Kernigh writes: If you know HTML, CSS, MediaWiki's syntax for templates, then you only need to know that infoboxes are templates containing floating tables.

Otherwise, maybe a simple example will help you. Here is a simple version of the box from w:c:NetHack:Zorkmid:

The stuff from {| to |} is a table. The |- lines make rows, while lines starting with | or || make table cells; ! or !| make bold-and-centered cells. You can put HTML inside the || or !|, like |style="vertical-align: top;"| or !colspan="2"|.

But to make it a template, you have to put the code in a page, say "Template:Item", then change some parts into , like so:

Now you tell everyone to do:

And if there is no |weight= line then the weight shows up as "unknown". But most infobox templates have far more code in them... --Kernigh 02:41, 9 February 2007 (UTC)