Thread:Icecream111/@comment-26366288-20151122082236/@comment-24808960-20151130142717

It's really no problem- I'm here to help! I don't know a lot about what all of the codes myself- just how to manipulate certain parts of them to make what I want. The codes are actually called HTML (no idea what that stands for) and underlie all computer stuff (from what I understand). Codes seem pretty random but for this wiki they're used to basically just dictate what colour goes where, and how large the font is, etc. If you're writing a code yourself or want to change something specific I can probably talk you through whatever problem you're having! (No promises that I can fix anything though).

Codes on this wiki; for example, is pretty much only putting <h2 and then a bunch of code and pitures/ text, followed by   makes the colourful boxes around certain items (as seen on the 'whatsnew' template. Within the h2 code I know that background: followed by a # and seeming random letters and numbers changes the colour of the box. For example: current codes for all templates on the main page say background:#B81324 meaning the colour of the boxes is red. I usually get these hex codes offline by googling the colour I want and copy/pasting the number into the code.

Infoboxes are the exception to things like this because they're pretty stubborn so I can't actually change the colour aside from the one that automatically changes with the background. The only things I can really change in infoboxes is what information goes where (example: making the pairings pages infobox have the 'ship name' section).