Template talk:Airport railway line, Brisbane

Few initial changes

Good to see a refresh of the Citytrain line maps. I've made a few minor changes, apart from making it look more standard with all the others, to explain:

• Specify a darker yellow/gold colour in header with black text — As per the Translink region colour spec, and with black text increases the contrast to make the text atop of it easier to read.
• Removed zone boundary icons — Not exactly ideal to implement with Citytrain, since overlapping zones – meant to be only temporary with the transition to zone-based ticketing – still exists (and wasn't quite right in this implementation).
• Revert Albion and Wooloowin as stations Airtrain runs express through — And being explained as closed on Sundays could have been interpreted that Airtrain services stopped there Monday to Saturday, which they don't, ever (even if they are closed/unmanned, they are still open for business).
• Removed Colorboxes — Really didn't sit well within the template, and used-up a lot of space with little benefit in an individual line map.
• Removed the Legend link — Is it really necessary? An arrow indicates a line continues, a dot means a station, a plane means an airport... they're all fairly obvious, especially with text beside them, such as the name of a river or creek beside a wavy blue line. However, the explanation for the icon to show express services not stopping at Albion and Wooloowin, which I introduced in the first place for this very map, isn't really explained appropriately in the Legend page with its Citytrain implementation.
• Defloated the template from the right — Most Citytrain pages don't contain a huge amount of content, and a right-aligned table sitting underneath a healthy Infobox would at times create a very long article with a large amount of space to the left; this would only sit well for readers with quite narrow screen widths.
• Make table uncollapsible — These maps, especially in the body of articles, provide a great amount of visual information to readers accompanying the text in the article. I don't think they should be hidden, as hidden items such as these can cause them to be missed by readers. Infoboxes aren't collapsible.

I think that was it.  SEO⁷⁵ 08:39, 16 November 2009 (UTC)