Talk:Factions

You shouldn't link directly to Templates as your sole method for providing information. Either have it inline with the {{Template:whatever}} syntax or make separate (normal) pages. Personally, I'd reccommend using the inline syntax, but either is okay. I'm not going to bother your changes to the Templates until Lemming speaks, but let the record note my pov on this.

The only reason I changed it at all was because of the fact that the "Factions" page is nothing like any of the other pages on the site. I have yet to see a single other page portaled like that with "inline" syntax. It's extremely annoying to have to return to the main page once you've activated a link from within one of the individual "template" pages just to get back to the "factions" page to begin again. By doing it the way I had it, you could select the faction you wanted to know about, it would bring that page up, click and of the links there you want, then return to that page, once done, you could click "return to factions" to get the main directory. I really see no harm in that at all.
Mark McDoogle 2:30pm 3/4/05

Which is why you should just use your browser's back button. The basic idea is that nothing should ever link to a template directly. The decision of whether to make Factions inline or separate pages is a design problem that should proabably be Lemming's decision. And those "back to TPG" links shouldn't exist. It's a sign of bad design that you need a back button in your HTML to do the job of the browser's back button. --Roguelazer 16:57, 4 Mar 2005 (CST)