Template talk:MiniaturesNavBox

order?
What is the ordering for the nav box? Should miniatures of different colors be separated somehow? -User:PanSola (talk to the ) 14:37, 13 September 2006 (CDT)
 * At the moment, it's by rarity then alphaetically (in other words, collector/rare/unique/etc. and alphabetically within each rarity type, as shown here). MRA's wrapping edit took away the 2-line format I started the template with that put all the collector/rare/unique together, and the uncommon/common as another set. I initially thought about dividing the minipets into separate lines for each item color/rarity, but with the standard list font size of the NavBox template, it would take up unnecessary space. - Intricated  talk page |undefined 17:48, 15 September 2006 (CDT)
 * At the moment, this nav box is pretty useless as it only links to NPC pages and not anything about any actual mini-pets. I think the whole community needs to discuss the whole organization of mini-pets on the wiki before we start making a big cluster-**** out of this. — Jyro X [[Image:Darkgrin.jpg|25px]] 14:53, 27 October 2006 (CDT)

Ordering revisited
Any objections to making this a completely alphabetical list? Next best to me is to have each color on its own row then alphabetical. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 15:38, 26 February 2007 (CST)


 * Maybe it should be split into groups: first birthday series, second birthday series, limited quantity prizes (kanaxai, beetle, etc), others. --Shattered Self 07:07, 29 April 2007 (CDT)

Piggy placement...
The suggested similarites noted on the pig's page suggested me to place it AFTER Rurik and Shiro. please correct me if I was wrong to do so. -- Barrage.

Mini Pages?
Only the pig and the Gray Giant have pages, if anything...shouldn't the other link to the Miniatures page? - Entice789  (Talk | Contributions) 21:59, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Standard pets only?
Are only pets available to all players to be listed in the navbox? Should the Taiwan/Japan exclusive ones be listed too? &mdash; kyrasantae   01:44, 24 March 2007 (CDT)

Gwen?
Why is Gwen on this list? She doesn't have a mini. In fact, neither does Palawa or Zhed, and I think others too --Gimmethegepgun 15:24, 11 May 2007 (CDT)
 * They do, the 2nd birthday set contains those minis. Lord of all tyria 15:26, 11 May 2007 (CDT)


 * Oh. Would help if there was actually some mention of the minis on the respective pages or something... --Gimmethegepgun 15:47, 11 May 2007 (CDT)

split
I propose the navbox be split into the 3 Birthday Series (hopefully 4 soon), and then "Other sources" or something to group all the rest. As it is now it's starting to get kind of long as a single blob of text and it's hard to find much of anything in it, especially with many names being the name of the monster and not the mini (Skree Tracker=Harpy Ranger), which I corrected below. The following is just a suggestion in a brainstorming kind of phase, because I don't know much about formatting navboxes, and I can't get it to look really good, but it illustrates the idea of the split, and I'm hoping someone else can step in and make it look prettier or give feedback on how they think this should be organized. This example also illustrates a flaw in the navbox template when you add both a title color and an image (unlike the Template:TonicsNavBox), and the first line in the list ("Birthday Series 1:") has a larger break space after it than all the others. RoseOfKali 18:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, and how about I add the 8 missing minis? >_< It's up to you whether to keep the 2 frogs. RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 19:08, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Would it be possible to have this be in 3 columns? column 1 for the series, then column 2 for the minis of that series, and column 3 would remain the image. --JonTheMon 19:11, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, you mean column 1 is the header, then 2 is the list, and 3 is the image? This is kind of what they use for the armor boxes, and it could probably work here, but I don't know how to do that.  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:01, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * How about:

--JonTheMon 20:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I changed the background color to lightblue as in the other navboxes. This one is too big and does not use the template, which defeats the purpose of having a navbox template.  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:27, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * While on the topic, I verified all the links in the top table and made sure they link to the correct creature and that the lists are complete. All that's left is formatting, and do we leave Frog/H.Frog in there or not?  I think yes, since they're listed on the Mini page, but wanted some input since they are not available to players.  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I got the wrong color :-/ However, i blame the size increase on the headers section being too big (make it 2 lines instead of 3 and a smaller font). I changed it on the table. Also, even though it's not using the navbox template, the template I looked at (Template:WarriorArmorNavBox) doesn't use the standard NavBox template either. --JonTheMon 20:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, if one thing doesn't use the template, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used. If it exists, I think we should try to use it if possible, and if not then we should try to modify the template to fit our needs, no?  Otherwise what's the point of having it?  And yes, smaller font would make a huge difference.  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, imo making the regular navbox be able to handle the header column would be... well, painful. Right now, you just dump text and it formats it for you. the header column kinda messes with the table itself.  I'll think about it some more, though. --JonTheMon 21:01, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure. Your suggestion looks fine if you can fix the text sizes and make the headers not carry over the number of the series. RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 21:20, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Umm, check my version now? It should have the smaller heading text in column 1. --JonTheMon 23:08, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Your version had smaller text in the headings from the start (I think?), but the numbers (1:, 2:, 3:) drop into a third line, and all the text in the mini lists is still large. I'm viewing in Monobook FF3, if that matters. RoseOfKali 23:20, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, looked fine in Chrome monobook and IE monaco, but not IE Monobook. Well, added some width%'s, so does that render ok or should I widen the column? --JonTheMon 00:08, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Another shouting match? I got some suggestions being edited now that will dwarf yours so don't exert yourselves ;-) . -- ◄mendel► 00:39, 3 March 2009 (UTC)