Talk:Fruitbat

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How do you get the status indicater to change colors?

By creating a new status indicator. By creating a new template for each story, I can go to the Special Page 'Most Linked To' and see precisely how many pages each story has.

As for the colors themselves in each template, edit a template and you'll see lines like: bgcolor="#CCFFCC" That means that the background color for the following section should be hexadecimal #CCFFCC, which is a pale green. Platypus

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How do you create a new template? It's a bit like creating a new page. First you need to put the name of your new template on a page and save that page. Template names use the squiggly brackets { rather than the square ones [. Then edit the page you put the template name on. At the bottom of the edit screen, under the save button, will be lines saying:

Templates used on this page:

• Whatever you named your template

Now you can click on the red link and go to the edit page for your template. I copy the coding from one template to the next and just do minor tweaking, like altering the colors. Platypus

What's QM? Quest of the Magician. --Platypus 12:22, 6 February 2007 (EST)