User talk:Tamino/Tea2 template draft

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Hello Tamino,
No, this looks a noble, not silly, idea. If I were to make any alterations, I'd:

1. Make the width between the text and the inside edges of the pictures the same as that between the outside edges of the pictures and the border (i.e. complete the virtual grey frame around each picture); and
2. Consider removing the "Someone has been nice to you on Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down" line and rephrasing "This is all part of the Wikipedia Kindness Campaign" as "This is all part of the WKC" to make the template a little more intriguing. That might mean scaling down the pictures' height to retain a sense of balance, although I wonder if the picture of the lady pouring the tea might then look too small.

Well, something to ponder. Best wishes, David Kernow 20:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions. I'm afraid my knowledge of code is rather limited (I copied the box from Mindspillage's userpage and fiddled with it until I got it to work as I wanted), so I don't know how to change the width of the gap. I would appreciate technical help on this. Your suggestion to make the template "more intriguing" (as you put it) sounds interesting - I'll do it to see how it looks. Tamino 21:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm no template expert either, but have fiddled with it in turn and made the reference to the WKC even more minimal/"intriguing"... maybe too "intriguing", so by all means revert to "Part of the WKC" or the like. Yours, David 00:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for solving the problem of it only being on one line. It looks so much better with the main text separated from the Wikipedia Kindness Campaign link. But with the pictures at width=20% there was a wider gap between the pictures and the sides of the template than before. Is this only in my browser (Internet Explorer, alas!), or was it the same for you? I've reduced the width parameter (is it called that? I'm just groping for technical terms...) to width=16% (without changing the first parameter, as that makes the whole template wider - what are these widths percentages of, anyway?). But this now leaves two problems painfully obvious:

1. As the two pictures have slightly different width to height ratios, the lady pouring the tea picture leaves a slightly wider border on the left than the tea picture does on the right.
2. The border at the bottom is narrower than that at the top for both pictures.

Any ideas how to solve this problem? Tamino 15:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)