Thread:Everyl/@comment-26479628-20130604013522/@comment-4632427-20130604015813

This was the first template I've ever made myself, so I went to a similar template on the wiki (In this case, Template:CritterBox), copied it over to a new Template: page, and picked over the code for a while to figure out more or less how it worked. Since I was making a very similar template, all I wound up doing was changing the content of the data fields and group names, then I Googled up a hex color picker to get hex codes for new background colors. The colors were just chosen because we didn't have any green category boxes on the wiki that I knew of.

I'm still looking at other templates to figure out how to do more advanced techniques. Just remember that it's best to make a new copy of a template to play with than to edit the original before you know what you're doing - I made that mistake the first time I tried tweaking templates, many months ago now.