User blog:Achris/New item template

Hi!

 (Check Puzzling Map or any other item page!)

I don't know much about writing blogs, so please bear with me :-)

Over the past few days I made several edits to Item that had a large impact on how item pages render. While some rough edges are still to be expected as I continue tinkering, the changes so far are:


 * heading structure is gone
 * I'd like to bring it back, eventually and when everything else is done
 * description is slightly accentuated using a blockquote
 * if you have ideas how this should look in the end, we can globally style them!
 * might warrant adding a "Comment" parameter for anything wiki editors want shown next to item descriptions, which shouldn't look like quoting FL text
 * Buying/Selling displays as small, cute table now
 * my plan is to also allow including one "canonic" non-Bazaar way of obtaining the item under Buying if the item cannot be bought from a Bazaar shop
 * the code for supporting this is finished, now gathering feedback at Soothe & Cooper Long-Box (check the comment threads)
 * economy table (with conversion overview where applicable)
 * side conversion / cross-category conversion tables
 * button to directly list all item sources
 * button to directly list all item uses
 * dynamic wording depending on whether items have sources/uses listed
 * this doesn't work 100% reliably yet I'm afraid
 * list of item effects only shows for items you can equip
 * for Bazaar-purchasable items, the effects also show with images now. Working on the others.
 * most likely I forgot something important, but this list is long enough as it stands already :)

If you have any feedback (or just want to tell me how I should stop ruining item pages) and ideas for other improvements (for example more themed sidebars) – please do leave a comment! I'm mostly working all by myself and can't really assess whether what I'm doing is good or bad, so any input helps me.