User blog:HotChocolate/First Steps

I've been some time here, so I thought, "why not make a blog?" And so I did. Hey everyone, I'm HotChocolate and this is my first blog entry.

I've been dealing with complex code lately. The rich text editor is quite good, but it can't process Wikipedia-based tables and stuff. I (if not always) frequently work in source mode, which allows you to create all kinds of data based tables. From wikipedia infoboxes to big data tables, source mode is, altrough pretty difficult to manage sometimes, definitely handier.

How did I learn to make tables? Well, for this I have to thank Warmonkey, who made for me a table. Quickly, via trial-and-error, I more or less learned how to make infoboxes like the one in my Republic of Layreth article. I made some for others, too. How can you make one like that? Simple (well, not really, just a form of speech) :

{| border=1 align=right class="toccolours" style="margin: 0 0 0.75em 0.75em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #c6c6c6 solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 85%; padding-top:0.75em; width:46ex;"
 * align=center colspan=2 style="line-height:1.4em; font-size:1.4em;" | Title
 * colspan=2 |
 * colspan=2 |

Just add this at the beginning of your table. Replace "Flag.png" and "Seal.jpg" with your images, replace "Title" with your title, and add this:

|-
 * align=center colspan=2 |  Anthem: Anthem
 * align=center colspan=2 style="background:#f9f9f9;" | [[Image:Location.png|350px|center|]]
 * align=center colspan=2 style="background:#f9f9f9;" | [[Image:Location.png|350px|center|]]

Replace the second "Anthem" with your anthem, and "Location.png" with your country's location. After that, add:

|-
 * Fact Title || Fact

For each fact about your country. For example:

|-
 * Official languages || Layrish (official) and English

And finally, at the end add "|}" (without the "'s) and you'll be fine. Thanks for reading!