Template talk:Michael Palin's Trips

"Name of trip" column redundant
Suggestion: removing the "Name of trip" column, which is completely redundant with the TV program name, and makes the footer unnecessarily large. $0.02 &mdash; Komusou talk @ 17:07, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, I approve of the changes Komusou made to the template earlier today.


 * As for dropping the "Name of trip" column, I would miss it. (Obviously, as I was the one who made the template originally.) But it would be no big deal for me. My justification is that it contains the "short-hand name" for the trip, while the other columns contain the official names, which sometimes differ between the TV program and the Michael Palin book.


 * A propos, the "Year" column is slightly problematic. Is it the year of the trip or the year of the TV program? (Which should be spelled "programme", now that I think of it.) Currently it is the year of the TV programme. --RenniePet 17:34, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Width-friendly alternative

 * The current table is way too wide. If you have a 1268 screen and small fonts, it'll work. For everybody else, each cell will be broken in 2 or 3 lines. This variant use 2 lines for each cell anyway and is much more width-friendly. There's even room to put the full date of the first broadcast, if needed.
 * The dates say "2003–2004" because "2003–04" also looks like "2003 April".
 * There is no &amp;nbsp; at the top because all navboxes are supposed to be able to stack nicely, in whichever order. The trick is to add a  before the first navbox, i.e.:

Great Railway Journeys
Palin's first travelogue was for BBC2's Great Railway Journeys, which isn't mentioned anywhere in this template - shouldn't there be a link to that as well? Grutness... wha?   13:36, 12 September 2014 (UTC)