Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-26339491-20150724231253/@comment-26339491-20150731173721

Hey all,

Yes, you are one of our most visited communities, that's something to be proud of!

It's true, the conversion tool only converts the basic markup - rows and columns of content, images, title ... If you have any CSS styling in there, e.g. to change the colors, width, borders, etc., then it doesn't pick it up.

That's the part that is going to be the most work in the conversion: Adding all the CSS styling, that was previously in the template to Special:CSS to make the boxes look the same as before on desktop. On the plus side: You don't need to change anything in the articles the infoboxes are on, the only thing that gets changed are the templates.

I can't stress enough how important this is on the long run. The infoboxes look quite okay now, because there is a large number of hacks and workarounds in place to make it that way. This works okay on most devices and on most pages, but these hacks hang by a thread - and some pages on some communities already look really bad on some devices. This differs a lot from device to device, so just because it may look perfectly fine on your phone or on mine doesn't mean it isn't all jumbled up on somebody else's.

Judging from a quick look at your infoboxes, they don't seem to be overly complex or styled with many bells and whistles, so that should be manageable. Then again, you do have more infoboxes than many other wikias.

I think starting with a general cleanup of the infoboxes is a good idea. Maybe you can start converting one to try it out. The tool creates a draft first that you can work on and perfect, and only when you're completely sure you still like the look on desktop, you'll approve it and make it replace the original template. So you can't ruin anything by trying. And there's no deadline of any sort - you can take all the time you need.

Let me know if you're unclear about any part of this process!