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)