User blog comment:Mech Rider/Templates????/@comment-1024726-20100110212451

Templates vary with styles.

If you're talking our traditional, table-based templates, just copy and paste a pre-existing template and then play around with the colors and variables. That's what I do.

If you're talking infoboxes, get something from a pre-existing infobox or from Wikipedia and again play around with the code.

However, many Wikipedia templates contain PARSER FUNCTIONS, which is where programming comes in. Parser Functions allow templates to behave in more advanced ways, and you'll need to know how they work together.

Template-making is fun, but you have to know how to do it.