Template talk:Virginia Tech

message: Here are other traditions that should be added to the template once there are articles for them:
* Old Hokie cheer
* Skipper, the cannon
* Maroon & Orange
-Gwguffey (talk) 03:05, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traditions 

message: In an attempt to make the VT navbox a bit cleaner, more elegant, and generally nicer-lookin', I've retrofitted it using the  stylistic variation of my  navbox layout.  I hope you like it.  --Dynaflow babble 04:02, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I generally like the picture on the right side of the template but otherwise it looks good.  Good work. Remember (talk) 13:50, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I, too, would prefer the image on the right.  I think the over-all work is great, though. Gwguffey (talk) 16:09, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I kind of like how the subheadings match and almost seem to emanate from Burruss Hall.  Looking at my image choice again today, I realized that it was too washed out, color-wise, to anchor the template's left-hand edge -- the contrast between the photo and the page behind it was way too low.  I did a bit of color enhancement in GIMP, making the image's color balance harmonize more with the school's colors in the template header and generally making things brighter, and uploaded a new version that gives the template a much stronger, higher-contrast left-hand edge (if you do not see the new image, hold down [SHIFT] as you reload the template page to bypass your browser's cache).  I personally like the effect of having a strong visual marker on the left and leaving the navbox open and spacious to the right.  I think I can change that element of the design if needs be without knocking things too far out of alignment; it's just a matter of tinkering around with it to get everything in its right place.  Let me know what you think of the current version of the template with the re-done image first, though.  --Dynaflow babble 22:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm happy with the layout. Nice work. Gwguffey (talk) 00:24, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  --Dynaflow babble 00:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redesign 

message: The redesign looks good. My issue now is with the content.  Compare the amount of information contained in this template with Template:UCLA which has the same basic format.  The VT template seems crowded.  Do the individual football and basketball seasons need to be there? Those are reachable through the sport-specific links. Gwguffey (talk) 00:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The athletics section is somewhat awkward and does seem to make the template seem "busier" than it needs to be.  I didn't use line breaks within sections in , which resulted in a slimmer-looking template that also resizes well between different screen resolutions/configurations.  I tried to preserve the link structure and content from the previous iteration of this template, however, and so I needed to use linebreaks in its athletics section to keep its sub-subheadings from linewrapping every which way and potentially confusing the reader.  If the athletics section was treated as a catch-all category, without need for delineating things into "Football," "Basketball," etc., we wouldn't have to do any force-formatting with the sports links.  If it could be just a continuous, wrapping list, it would greatly simplify that area in the heart of the template -- both in terms of underlying code and overall aesthetics.  --Dynaflow babble 00:58, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Another thing we could do to simplify that section is to put the articles subcategorized under Athletics -> Facilities under the Campus subheading instead, and of course, the Athletics -> People articles would be more than germane under just People.  --Dynaflow babble 01:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just pulled out the specific links to see what it looks like. Gwguffey (talk) 02:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've resized the image to minimize the template's height, now that we've eliminated/compacted some rows.  --Dynaflow babble 03:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done. The balance is much better. Gwguffey (talk) 04:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

text: That does a nice job of implying the official font. Good choice. Gwguffey (talk) 04:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content 

message: Converted to navbox so that the template plays nicely with other templates. Also added 'nowrap begin'-based formatting. Thoughts? --Gwguffey (talk) 03:40, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navbox