User blog comment:TheRealPella/Are we working too hard here?/@comment-15636815-20131019071535

This post is by Skip Lawson! I moved it here from my Talk page because of a technical difficulty.

Tried to leave a comment on your "Are we working too hard here" blog, but it wouldn't allow comments. Not sure what you mean by "ten times better". When I format my tables, I build them in the table editor and just cut and paste the code. All the style crap just goes with it. I don't type anything, and every cell I want changed is formatted at the same time. I think you are reinventing the wheel by changing all the tables. It will boost your stats, but it's not "productive".

As it happens, the tables I build are all templated anyway. I set up one template, and use it over and over. This way if any change needs to be made to my table, it's all in one spot. I don't have to hunt down every single instance (This appeals to my C++/Java background). Take a look at the source behind XP Required For Level Up, and the two quick templates I threw together for those: Template:LevelXPTable and Template:LevelXPItem. As a bonus, the Template:EndTable was already there, so I leveraged off of that, so there was even less work.

My templates are easily changed to add or remove columns for future projects.

I'm not calling you out or anything, but you did ask for opinions. I don't think jinking around with the tables at a source level just to make them look exactly the same is useful. If this were a table that was being changed all the time and was a bear to maintain, then your efforts might be worth it. But if it's a fairly static page with no changes to be made, I'd say leave them be. That's just my two cents.

By the way, do you have any idea why we can't comment on you blog?

I forgot to sighn my post...

Skip Lawson (talk) 06:28, October 19, 2013 (UTC)