Board Thread:Anne Wiki Improvement Society/@comment-3493059-20170614062945/@comment-3493059-20170622035750

Let me explain myself, because I'm sure I must seem quite wild by now! I wanted to change to the new style (called Portable Infoboxes) because I like the stacked look of the parameters and I like the collapsible groups. (Also, the new style looks a lot better on mobile.) I was testing out some things and I think I ended up coming to the same opinions that you wrote.

Anyway, the main difference between the old style and new style isn't really how it looks - it's the markup. With the new style, it's a lot easier to edit infoboxes, and also easier to change the design, as it is all based on a regular template look, then a theme is picked using the "universe" parameter (default theme is "out of universe"). The colours for the themes are all written in the wiki's CSS page instead of in the template markup itself.

I've done some more fiddling with the general infobox look:
 * made the infobox title centred
 * made the individual headings centred
 * finished converting all the "out of universe" infoboxes to the new style
 * removed the "appearances" section from Infobox character/Draft
 * added a footer similar to the old one, with that changes depending on the universe (it uses Footer)

Because of the new structure, it's very easy to change how ALL infoboxes look. There are two things left:
 * The bit of code that made the infobox cells alternating shades of grey is written in JavaScript, and I don't know how to say the same thing in CSS yet.
 * Small thing: I haven't found a way to make the corners of the footer rounded. (Yet.)

A few more notes:
 * It's possible to make the new style look even more like the old style (font sizes, infobox width, etc.). I just haven't done that yet, because I wanted a second opinion.
 * The old Colour1 and Colour2 templates aren't needed for infoboxes anymore, but they're still used for navboxes, of course.
 * I was in two minds about whether or not to have appearances in the template - in the end, I decided it was too impractical (like you said), but didn't bother to edit the draft template before I went to bed.
 * Sections can be collapsed by default by setting the parameter to "closed" instead of "open":
 * It's also still possible to display the data in two columns, if needed. Just remove this clause from the very top of the infobox: layout="stacked"