Template talk:Show Page

I've just made some changes to this, but consider it a proposal. I used a contribution of Alice's as a starting point. I thought that having everything inline together left too much empty space (alongside the setlist, for example), which leads to more scrolling than the page should really need. So I moved the setlist to the right side and allowed other text to wrap around it. I also added a section for related links (also with the wraparound treatment).

The drawback is that novice editors may find it easy to mess up the layout accidentally. It's not much more complicated than a lot of pages, though, and putting fan recaps in their own separately editable section helps reduce this risk.

Of course, I think that fan recaps should go right there on the page, rather than on a separate linked page. But if the consensus disagrees, then these changes aren't as necessary.—Bryce

Okay, so I tried out the template on this page (among others) and overall I like it and find it less intimidating to fill out than I had originally feared it would be for me, but is there any way to bring the "links" section back from the edge of the page (other than making the name of the link longer)? I figured out that the pieces fit together sort of dynamically depending on how long the lines are in any one section, but is there some way to force the sections at the right-hand side to maintain a certain size, so short-named links won't get lost way over there?

Another thing I was thinking is that I'd like to add some way to navigate back to a particular show's year page so that people won't have to use the Back button on their browser or, alternatively and much more annoyingly, click on the Shows link at the top and from there back to the year. I experimented with putting the Shows Footer template at the bottom and it looked absolutely awful. But since the individual show pages are in the same directory as the year pages, rather than being in a lower directory, I don't think there's a way to generate a relative link automatically. On this page I stuck the year link in the date of the show...but if there's a better/easier solution, I'd love that. — aliste

Looks like Duke33's already addressed both of these suggestions in the template, but I wanted to mention that I think linking the year in the date is an elegant solution. —Bryce

Show Attendance

Everyone, Take a look at Shows/2005-12-31. I've added a little feature on there that allows you to mark yourself as having been at the show. I'm totally open to comments on design, whether you love or hate it, etc. Thanks

This is a totally cool idea! Strictly aesthetically I have one nitpick, that the text in the box is way too close to the left edge (at least that's how it appears to me [I'm using Safari on a Mac])—is it possible to indent it? — aliste

Fixed that...So, what do people think about size, placement, etc? I think it's way too huge right now. Any ideas as to where it should go? --Duke33 12:01, 27 Jan 2006 (EST)

New question/comment: Is there any way to take yourself off of a list? And if not, it is important (or possible even) to do that?

I suppose i could do that. --Duke33 11:09, 31 Jan 2006 (EST)

Done. --Duke33 22:54, 2 Feb 2006 (EST)

Tour Info?

Anyone think that it would be a good idea to add a piece to the show template, to indicate what tour this show was a part of? For example, we would add something like this:

Tour: Don't Tread On The Cut-Up Snake

or

Tour: Beardo 2006

Good idea / Bad idea? I think the cut-up snake and "spine on the highway" are the only pages for tours right now, but we could easily add the others, if people have that info. Thoughts? --Duke33 10:10, 27 Apr 2006 (CDT)

How about making the tours be categories and then just adding the applicable shows to those categories? --Joltman 8:11, 28 April 2006 (EST)

I just did an example of what I was talking about at Shows/2006-04-27 --Joltman 8:19, 28 April 2006 (EST)

Posters

Would it be possible/a good idea to have two poster fields, rather than just one? There are only a couple shows with two posters, but it would be nice to be able to have both on the page and not have it look so awkward. -Apollo (colloquia!) 18:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

downloads

ALL OF THE DOWNLOAD LINKS are broken (example). i believe the show downloads have been removed from the merch store, i can't find them anywhere on there. i think the easiest way to solve this would be to just remove the "productid" parameter from this template (as well as the show template), rather than go through and remove the line from each show page. as far as i'm aware, the nonexistent parameter will just be ignored on the show pages, and it'd be much easier to undo if they magically come back or something. would that mess anything up? -Apollo (colloquia!) 15:35, 18 December 2011 (EST)

I talked to the management company, and it does not seem likely that these downloads are coming back. Just wanted you all to know. --Duke33 08:15, 20 December 2011 (EST)

Toad

The apostrophe in "Toad's Place" is not being parsed correctly on show pages (see Shows/1997-02-20). i assume the same problem is occurring with other venues with special(?) characters in their names. Apollo (colloquia!) 00:13, 1 December 2014 (EST)

https

URL path in the <img src> for the photo image should be edited to https. doesn't cause a whole lot of issues now, but browsers will start whining more in the future. - Blegh (talk) 05:16, 28 February 2022 (EST)