Talk:Forevever/Trinkets

[IMG]http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo27/Forevever/starfish.jpg[/IMG]

Attempting to do my own trinket pictures

I don't really like the templates, I want to condense things, make it look more attractive. I used the ypp image and basically just deleted the starfish I didn't have, and uploaded it to Photobucket. Now how do I get it show?

Use the colorize trinkets template rather than the my trinkets template. For example, {{colorize trinket|Starfish|red}} produces the red starfish image. If you want it to look exactly like the image you've posted above, you can nest it in a table with text and stuff. As the current version of the wiki software doesn't allow imbedding of external images, the only way you could have that image show would be to upload it to the wiki's file space, and we'd rather you don't, as we already have an image and templates that perform the function well enough. --Belthazar451 22:22, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

you may want to delete the image I just tried to upload then :X and I will try that, thanks so much!

On your user talk page, you asked what the noinclude tag is for. I'm unable to edit user talk pages at the moment, so I'll answer you here. Basically, your trinket and pet sub-pages are being included in your main pirate article. Enclosing text inside noinclude tags means that the text between the tags will NOT be included. We have this line because we want the sub-pages to be in a category for easy finding, but we don't want your main pirate article to wind up in the same category. (As a point of interest, there's also an includeonly tag, which makes text appear only when it's included in another page.) Nice work on your trinkets, by the way. =) --Belthazar451 23:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

thanks Bel, everyones been a great help. I do have a question about trinkets and I've stopped tweaking at the moment until its answered. If you look at the current trinket page, you'll see the picture doesn't quite line up with the box. It only happens when I add text that goes beyond the borders of the box. Any idea why its doing this? At the moment my only solution is to not add much text (though I do have another idea that will probably work... let me know what you think.

Yah, that's what I find annoying about the colorize trinket template - for some reason, the inside image doesn't respond to alignment tags, and I don't understand the code used in the template well enough to fix it. The only solution I've found is to set it up so the image doesn't require centering to look pretty, but that's a bit limiting. If your solution works, I'd love to hear it. One thought I had was to use a slightly more complicated table structure, but it ain't easy to get it working properly. There's an example below. (Naturally you'd do it without visible borders - I've just made them visible to show what I did.) --Belthazar451 23:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

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LOL that was exactly my idea - the extra table coding! Ty will work on that :D

new question - what is up with the award trinkets? I was trying to put up a yellow ribbon and it said yellow and only showed half the ribbon, I assume there's a different code for that rather than the code you gave me before...

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Yep, slightly different - the ribbon is a two-colour trinket, meaning you'll need another parameter for the second colour. For example, {{colorize trinket|Ribbon|yellow|green}}. Some trinkets, like the pins, are three-colour trinkets, requiring a third colour parameter. A handy rule of thumb with trinkets and pets: if the image appears but is off-center or the wrong colour, it means you've entered one or more of the colour parameters incorrectly. If the image doesn't appear at all, it means you've entered the trinket's name incorrectly. --Belthazar451 01:40, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I truly appreciate your patience with me. New question - how can I show furniture that I've received as an award (for example, the bronze neckband)

It's no problem. For furniture, there's no template to display them, so you'll simply have to find the name of the image used in the wiki, and put it in a table. The code to display an image is [[Image:Imagename]]. You'll find the furniture listed alphabeically by name, starting from here - the rare artifacts can also be found here. You can get the image name by clicking on the image itself - that will take you to the image's page. For example, the bronze neckband's page is Image:Furniture-Bronze neckband.png. Just copy the image name from the page header. --Belthazar451 02:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)