Guide:Writing HeroPage

Intro
This is a small guide to working with the Project Haven Wikia.

This is a quick demonstration of how I did a hero page. Just a heads up, it's much easier to write using the source code. The visual/GUI editor is slow and makes sleeker things hard to do IMO. Whenever you are confused about a specific page, turn on the source option, skim the code and try to understand what's doing what.

Disclaimer: you're allowed to write whichever way you please, just make sure your information is accurate and understandable. But I must say, most of this can be learned in 30~120 minutes. It's very easy, you can google stuff you don't understand or just experiment with CnP'd code.

Hero Info
Let's examine the first part, I'll be deconstructing the source of the Widow Mine page for an example.

If you're gonna CnP, which you should, I recommend doing so from the Firebat page, which is slightly better organized than the earlier pages I did (not by very much though). I only chose the Widow Mine page because it has slightly less text, making it easier to read.

This is what the first part looks like in source.

This part is very straight forward, you basically just copy this code and change the parts behind the "=" sign. I guess you can do this via GUI since I made a GUI template for this called "hero info".

The only part that might confuse you slightly might be the image row. Basically navigate to Special:Images, upload the portrait image and copy and paste the name of the desired image into the line, prefaced by " File: ". You can find the name of an image by clicking on it in the Special:Images page. But as of writing this article, I have uploaded all the portrait images. They follow the format " Charactername portrait_static.png ".

Tabbed Sections (+Ability Info/Perks/Etc..)
This next part will be slightly more confusing to users unfamiliar with HTML/markup. It's kind of best just to CnP and twiddle around with things until you start to understand a little more. Abilities= Widow Mine currently utilizes the Original System.

Creates a tab menu, where we can separate different sections of information.

Abilities=

First tab section, every tab section following this must use "|-|" at the beginning of the line.

Widow Mine currently utilizes the Original System.

Simple hero system preface.

" |} " ends the current table.

" " ends the tab menu.

IMO this makes it look a lot complicated than it really is, just copy and paste stuff - tweak stuff for yourself. Google "Wikia Table", "Wikia Colored Text",.. stuff like that - it's really easy. Have fun editing Project Haven Wikia.

Note to self, make this community page a specific page.

Sobrtonog (talk) 10:38, May 30, 2017 (UTC)