User blog:Leolab/Creating talk templates

Making the template
1: Making the page

In order to use the talk template, you need to make a template page.

Fist order of business is deciding what to call it. The example used here is called "TalkTutorial". In order to make this page, click on "create new page". In the title, type in "Template:" followed by what you're calling it. For the example, the title is Template:TalkTutorial.

Next, you need coding.

Copy/paste the above into the page.

Third comes the image. Chose what you want and upload it. When adding it, only put the image name. As an example for the tutorial, we are using NoImage.

Also needed is the size of the image. I generally recommend 100-150px, though that can change based on the picture. For the tutorial, we'll use 100px.

Afterwards, the coding looks like this:

Next comes the color of the two halves of the template. Simply type in the name of the color, found in Help:Colors. For the tutorial, I'm making the most garish template possible, so the color I'm using for the top is Chartruse.

Code:

For the bottom, I'm using Indigo.

Code:

Next comes the colors of the text. Continuing our garish theme, we're using Pumpkin Orange for the top and Gold for the bottom.

Since Pumpkin isn't a recognizable color name, we're using the hex coding found on Help:Color.

Code:

After that comes the line dividing the two bubbles. I just made it black.

Code:

Then comes the name. Type in your username. Here, I'm typing Tutorial.

Code:

On the next line, type in what you want for your sig. This goes in the top bubble and doesn't change. I've put in "This is for the template blog" for this tutorial.

Code:

Click publish.

Now you've made your template! YAY!!!

Now to use it.

2: Using the talk template

So to use the talk template, use normal template coding.

For example,

will show up as