Modern Terminology:Templates - How To

Welcome to the how-to page on making templates! This will tell you the basics for all you need to know surrounding templates.

Creation
This first stage has a set of carefully worded instructions:
 * Search "Template:?" replacing the ? with the name of the template you want to make. Make it short and snappy, like "Q" instead of "Quote".
 * Then, if no results appear, click the red links which will take you to the creation page, ready to edit your template.

Easy, yes?

Editing
I'm going to split this down into sections. Firstly:

Divider sections
If you want your template to be in a box, like a message of some sort, then there are two ways to do this:
 * Use the template.
 * Use a Biolerplate div style

If you use the box template, you can make a very simple box, with a picture, that shows a desired message. This box can be made quickly and easily. However, if you want the box to be in a different colour than grey, or want multiple pictures, then you want this divstyle code:

 YOUR TEXT, PICTURES AND MEDIA HERE

This example will get you this box:  YOUR TEXT, PICTURES AND MEDIA HERE

Changing the id will allow your message to be understood by the entire document, making it easier to load. the style parameter allows you to adjust what percentage of the screen it will take up, whether there is a margin (keep this at 0 auto for most boxes), the padding (again, keep this at 10px where possible) the border size, the solidity (keep this constant! DO NOT CHANGE THIS), the background colour (using hexagonal colour system. The example uses blue, but some common codes can be found to change this colour. Most commonly is the pale yellow used in the licenses) and finally, the text colour (do not ask what system is used here, I have noi idea. experiment).

DO NOT REMOVE THE <div AND TAGS. THIS WILL REMOVE YOUR DIVIDER AND JUST LEAVE THE RAW TEXT SHOWN IN THE EXAMPLE.

Parameters
This is a highly important part of the template system, so PAY ATTENTION. Parameters are used so that you can enter text in the template tag (e.g. ). These parameters are set in order from 1 to any reasonable number. If I was to create a template to show that the page conatins reference to 1 - a parameter set by the user - then I could make something like this:

 This page contains reference to. You have been warned...

You would replace with a level - strong, mild, common, etc - and replace  with the subject. This means if the page conatins strong themes of sexual nature, your tag would be:

This owuld give you the same as above, but with the numbers and  replaced with mild and sexual nature.