User talk:Zantam03

New skin
I've created a new skin, and fixed the background problem.

To begin, replace:

with this:

body { background-image: url('http://www.art-virtue.com/painting/history/ching/PuRu/snow-20.jpg') !important; } { border-width: 0px !important; background-color: transparent !important; } { background-color: #DAD59E !important; } .color1 { background-color: #818465 !important; color: #EFCE9B !important; } .accent, #link_box, #link_box_dynamic { background-color: #EFCE9B !important; border-width:0px !important; } .toc, #catlinks, .neutral { background-color: #FFFBB9 !important; }
 * 1) wikia_header, #background_strip
 * 1) wikia_page, .selected, .widget

--Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 15:32, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Holy cow thanks a lot man! :-D Great stuff :-D Looks very nice now :-) -- Zantam03 15:38, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

I know. :) Sometime later I'll also add some more fixes. Any personal suggestions for me to work on? --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 22:11, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, no :-P Well I have some ideas on my mind but I don't think you can help me with it until I actually uploaded it on this Wiki; I wanna make some small pictures, upload them, place them on the main page and use them as redirects. I've seen it on some other wiki's and it looks nice.

Hmm, maybe you can change those tabs at the top of the user page? There are orange squares around them... that's all I can think of right now.. what fixes are you gonna add?? -- Zantam03 22:36, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

I can fix those quite easily - and the Wiki text, as well as the green button's colours will be changed. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 10:01, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

OK, add:

a.wikia-button, a.wikia-button:visited, span.wikia-button a, span.wikia-button a:visited, input[type="submit"], input[type="reset"], input[type="button"], button { background-color: #808080; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #808080 20%, #666666 70%); background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 20%, 0% 70%, from(#808080), to(#666666)); border-color: #FFFFFF; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #262626, 0 -1px 0 #262626, 1px 0 0 #262626, -1px 0 0 #262626; color: #000000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #262626; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #262626, 0 -1px 0 #262626, 1px 0 0 #262626, -1px 0 0 #262626; color: white !important; }

/* IE Styles */ a.wikia-button, span.wikia-button a, input[type="submit"], input[type="reset"], input[type="button"], button { filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(GradientType=0, StartColorStr="#FF808080", EndColorStr="#FF666666"); outline: 1px solid #262626\9; }

/* Hover and Active states */ a.wikia-button:hover, span.wikia-button a:hover, input[type="submit"]:hover, input[type="reset"]:hover, input[type="button"]:hover, button:hover { text-shadow: #FFFFFF 0 1px 1px; }

a.wikia-button:active, span.wikia-button a:active, input[type="submit"]:active, input[type="reset"]:active, input[type="button"]:active, button:active { color: #000000; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #666666 20%, #808080 70%); background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 20%, 0% 70%, from(#666666), to(#808080)); } { background-color: #818465 !important; color: #EFCE9B !important; } { color: #EFCE9B !important; }
 * 1) user_masthead_tabs > li > a
 * 1) header_username > A

To the skin - then Ctrl+F5 it to see. There prolly will be more changes - because Wikia released a huge upgrade after I made it. Oh well, it's easy to fix. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 10:12, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

also: as for speech templates use this or this. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 10:37, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

-- Thanks :-) The first one looks great presuming I can change the pic? And can als place the pic on the right? Btw, why are you doing all this?? :-P -- Zantam03 10:39, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

There's a parameter to change the image - this - I can't make it go on the right though. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 10:45, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

- It looks nice. But do I have to make a new template everytime I wanna use another picture? -- Zantam03 10:52, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

Nope, you just give it a parameter when adding it to the page. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 11:53, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

The RTE isn't very kind to templates, so I'm gonna write some help pages on it. The pictogram is missing because of Wikia upgraded, --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 15:15, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

Great
I think the background and everthing is EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--Knightrez 06:03, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

You got a great taste on the color choice of this wiki, great job!

Tell me how you did it.

ALSO, the Records of the Three Kingdoms page is supposed to be Records of Three Kingdoms, correct name of the novel.--Knightrez 06:21, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

The wiki is getting bigger and bigger soon it will have 150 articles! it is time to create articles on major charactors, like Zhao Yun, Sun Ce, Zhang Fei--Knightrez 06:55, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

--Thanks :-D Yea this is how I always had it in mind. Also thanks to Zipwire for the help with the skincolour (and many other stuff)! I'm happy with how it looks.

What's your source on RotTK being RoTK? Baidu translates sanguo zhi as Records of the Three Kingdoms and Kongming also has it listed as Records of the Three Kingdoms.

As for major characters. Cao Cao, Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo articles will soon be updated because I'm reading about the CADZ now in which they participate.

Does your talk page work properly here? Or still virusses? -- Zantam03 10:25, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

All these adds
All these adds are coming on to the middle of pages could you get rid of it? Knightrez 02:28, March 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I only see one add; top of the main page, but I can't remove that one and Wikia has also forbidden it to remove it. -- Zantam03 08:35, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

Virus real bad
The virus is real bad. This wiki doesn't look the same anymore. Not only that all the wikias I visit have changed and some things are not right.

For example: The 5 star ratings (rate this article) thing is gone. can't delete added categories and the search bar has changed. Is it the same to you? or a virus? -- Knightrez 10:15, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

- The searchbar has changed because of an update of the Wikia system, maybe the other things you experience also come from this update? Most of the stuff you mention works fine with me though.. -- Zantam03 13:50, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

I think JavaScript is disabled - those things are powered by JS. Google how. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 13:52, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

Reply
The speech template - I see no green. If you want to give the quote different colours, use the font tag.

CPW doesn't have a lot of infoboxes, but Wikia templates has a lot of those and more. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 14:14, March 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * The infoboxen header colour can be changed, when you import it, tell me what colours and I'll get to work on it. As for the green, try using a higher colour depth in your Windows settings - at least 16 bit colour is recommended. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 21:10, March 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Quick copy and paste job, a bit of editing... and it should be done. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 22:01, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

What's a Javascript Zapwire? Where do I get it? --Knightrez 09:15, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Zapwire
How did User:Zapwire get here? Hoping he's willing to contribute. --Knightrez 10:05, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Sgv
Ive giving up hope on creating Automobile Wiki. Not many visitors....... :-( --Knightrez 13:15, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Dong Zhuo forces
Are you gonna now create articles on Dong Zhuo's forces like TRA Zhang Rang, Jia Suo, Zhao Zhong.... :-) Knightrez 15:43, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

-- first I'll finish the CADZ, then I'll write bios and update the spotlight section -- Zantam03 15:49, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Create
Are you gonna create a article about Dong Zhuo? :-) --Knightrez 15:56, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

-Yep.. why? -- Zantam03 15:57, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Well... because your'e working on the CADZ and visitors will be wanting to see Dong Zhuo's biography. --Knightrez 16:08, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Fictional?
Is Zu Mao a fictional charactor? did he really participate in YTR? --Knightrez 16:09, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

- No way, he helped Sun Jian escape from Xu Rong. (Sun Jian gave Zu Mao his scarf or something so the enemy mistook him for Sun Jian). His role in the YTR was very small. He was an officer of Sun Jian (and Sun Jian was an officer of Zhu Jun, so Zu Mao was of low rank). He didn't do much. Porbably assisted Sun Jian and killed some troops but didn't do anything special so he's hardly mentioned during YTR.

I think...
I think some of the infobox pictures should have historical images. All visitors will see is just RTK potraits. They want to be able to see old chinese printing or paintings. --Knightrez 02:22, March 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Those old chinese prints are just as fictional as the RTK portraits. -- Zantam03 00:48, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

Ok --Knightrez 11:06, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

Admins
My objective is to become the adminis of this wiki :-D --Knightrez 02:36, March 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Then first you gotta read the rules because you're surely not applying to them :-D The header 'Differences between Fact & Fiction' has become a subheader for a while now... fictional stuff must never be in the 'life' header and there are other things you're doing wrong. Read the rules and read them carefully. Also, it's "an arrow", not "a arrow". -- Zantam03 11:27, March 20, 2010 (UTC)

Gottcha. Im reading the rules now, no problem :-) --Knightrez 11:56, March 20, 2010 (UTC)

Sidebar editing
You can also edit the sidebar! Check this wiki and look at the sidebar (it's not english) --Knightrez 13:37, March 20, 2010 (UTC)

Help
Automobile Wiki isn't getting a lot of visitors. Do you have any tips or suggestions to tell me? so i can get more visitors thanks :-) --Knightrez 05:25, March 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Are there any car forums you visit? If yes, then make a topic there about your wiki. Or add the link of your wiki to your signature on that forum. I think I've posted a link to my wiki on about 9 different forums. -- Zantam03 21:44, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

Changed
Ive changed the skin at Automobile Wiki. Thanks to Zapwire. Tell me how you think? Dfegg 13:39, March 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * let's just say its not a skincolour combination I'd choose :-D but you like it, so.. -- Zantam03 21:45, March 21, 2010 (UTC)