User:ChaosVoid/Talk Bubble Making for Dummies

Welcome to Talk Bubble Making for Dummies. I've noticed that in other wikias, such as Kingdom Hearts wikia, talk bubbles are extremely common, even uniform. So, I decided, on a wikia such as Fairy Tail Wikia where talk bubbles are uncommon, I would make a tutorial for those who decided to make a talk bubble. Please note that the coding is pretty difficult and that inexperienced users will have trouble making talk bubbles. You probably got here through my userpage, so you know who I am. Go to my talk page here and leave a message for me if you need any help, I'll be glad to. However, it is important to persevere... Now, on with the tutorial...

=== http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n571/RehGen/ScreenShot2011-08-19at41658PM-2.png A Basic Talk Bubble-For Idiots among Dummies http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n571/RehGen/ScreenShot2011-08-19at41658PM-2.png ===

If you were to just have a talk bubble without any coding or customization involved it would look like this:



You'd probably be better off just not using a talk bubble. Talk bubble customization is very easy if you know how to do it. The simple way of making talk bubbles is easy. Just fill out the areas indicated:

If you're a newbie wiki-wise, it probably looked like gibberish. It's incredibly hard to understand unless you spend plenty of time doing it. Some lazy people like me never bother and just copy and paste, haha. So now, this is how a talk bubble coding with customizations would look like (the format is kind of messed up, so before every " | ", you should skip a space. Click on the edit button to see what I mean.):

The result would look like this:

If you take a look at the coding for the talk bubble you can see that for the "color=" section I put red, thus the top half of the talk bubble is red. For "color2=" I put black so the bottom half of the talk bubble is black. You should probably understand how all that works now, but you may be wondering what those and  things are for. Well if you wanted to use this talk bubble without having to type out that giant chunk of coding every time you use it you'd save it to a template (which I'll explain later on in this page). Whenever you use the talk bubble you'd type something similar to this:

=== http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n571/RehGen/ScreenShot2011-08-19at41658PM-2.png More Advanced Coding- For Smarter Dummies http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n571/RehGen/ScreenShot2011-08-19at41658PM-2.png ===

So now you're somewhat able to comprehend the coding, great. Now what? More advanced coding, flashier bubbles. Yeah, ooh lah lah and all that. Alright, see if you can understand this:

Right, how was it? Good? Bad? Anyway, I haven't mentioned this before, but DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, REMOVE ANY OF THE CODING I'VE PUT. All of it's extremely important. Now, with the info filled out...

Result:

Mmm, fancier, hm? Of course, I just stuck with the same colors, but when you make yours, feel free to change it all and stuff, to customize it.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: There aren't that many talk bubble images, but you can use whatever picture you'd like to use. Additionally, if you'd like to make a request for a talk bubble, ask Ishthak, Asasyn32, ChaosKnight, B j, or -jabberjay to make you one. I quoted Jakuho-sempai on that one. Have fun!

=== http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n571/RehGen/ScreenShot2011-08-19at41658PM-2.png COMING SOON: SKINNY AND INVERSE TALK BUBBLES http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n571/RehGen/ScreenShot2011-08-19at41658PM-2.png ===