User:AlMac| (talk) figured out how to do this, with help from User:Ali K and others, in a couple days, then in turn User:Jayant412 had successfully created several a few days later, so whether or not these instructions are optimal, this is not rocket science, most anyone can figure it out, although we can have some hassles trying to modify them to our tastes, such as changing color combinations and using different pictures, so you may wish to ask other people who have them for additional guidance, checking links from Wikipedia:Userboxes to locate other Userbox enthusiasts who might be able to give you some tips.
This how to is aimed at helping someone, who is new to userboxes, getting something that works in minimum effort, then after you have something you like, you can further explore what is involved in designing your own, if that interests you.
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I am going to key some info, then save, then key some more ... I am far from done here. Plus I managed to mess up when cutting and pasting from MY window-3, so I may have to do over some of this input.
I have to telecommute to work for a few hours, so I will get back to this fun later.
Nice..i didnt think it would be so easy...Thanks a lot..i'll put up more user boxes later.. Jayant, 17 Years, India (Talk) 11:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
User:AlMac| (talk) 23:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The way to sort userboxes out is fairly simple, according to Ali K: just put {| to start the table, and from then on put | before each userbox. The |- indicate next line. Finish with |}. User:AlMac| (talk) 08:13, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
So far, what I have done is tried to copy what works, then edit it to change the image used, the text used, the colors used, etc.
While learning how to do this, some people have been extremely helpful, and appear to enthusiastically wish to help other individuals create their first userboxes, and to improve our state of art.
This is what I sometimes do when I want to plagarize a particular picture, but the person I want to copy it from has a more complicated system of user boxes than I can figure out, so I plagarize from someone else instead.
You might mant to check out some of these people user pages for examples of user boxes, and also their relevant contributions.
So if you reading this, and you trying to get started with Userboxes, here are some people you might want to ask for help if you get stuck. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
In Getting Started, there was a rhetorical question: "What colors work well, and what names can you use for the colors?" directing the student to this place with what some colors look like, in combination with the words to get those appearances.
There are other attributes of web design where we can learn, by bad examples, from the mistakes and misjudgements of others, to not do that ourselves. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:08, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
If you want to add a Babel box to show what languages you speak, just follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Babel. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:26, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Arrangement of stuff on screen is very much browser dependent. See Cernen on Userbox arrangements.
It might be worth while reviewing Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability and its archives, such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/archive1, to see all of the areas where past Wiki articles have fallen short of some standards that you might desire to include in your work. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:13, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
You might also want to review the kind of standards found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. It is pretty wonderful that Wikipedia accomodates contributors from every nation and religion on the planet, where cultures and national interests can clash off-line. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:24, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
User:AlMac| (talk) figured out how to do this, with help from User:Ali K and others, in a couple days, then in turn User:Jayant412 had successfully created several a few days later, so whether or not these instructions are optimal, this is not rocket science, most anyone can figure it out, although we can have some hassles trying to modify them to our tastes, such as changing color combinations and using different pictures, so you may wish to ask other people who have them for additional guidance, checking links from Wikipedia:Userboxes to locate other Userbox enthusiasts who might be able to give you some tips.
This how to is aimed at helping someone, who is new to userboxes, getting something that works in minimum effort, then after you have something you like, you can further explore what is involved in designing your own, if that interests you.
![]() | This user is from the planet Earth. |
![]() |
I am going to key some info, then save, then key some more ... I am far from done here. Plus I managed to mess up when cutting and pasting from MY window-3, so I may have to do over some of this input.
I have to telecommute to work for a few hours, so I will get back to this fun later.
Nice..i didnt think it would be so easy...Thanks a lot..i'll put up more user boxes later.. Jayant, 17 Years, India (Talk) 11:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
User:AlMac| (talk) 23:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The way to sort userboxes out is fairly simple, according to Ali K: just put {| to start the table, and from then on put | before each userbox. The |- indicate next line. Finish with |}. User:AlMac| (talk) 08:13, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
So far, what I have done is tried to copy what works, then edit it to change the image used, the text used, the colors used, etc.
While learning how to do this, some people have been extremely helpful, and appear to enthusiastically wish to help other individuals create their first userboxes, and to improve our state of art.
This is what I sometimes do when I want to plagarize a particular picture, but the person I want to copy it from has a more complicated system of user boxes than I can figure out, so I plagarize from someone else instead.
You might mant to check out some of these people user pages for examples of user boxes, and also their relevant contributions.
So if you reading this, and you trying to get started with Userboxes, here are some people you might want to ask for help if you get stuck. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
In Getting Started, there was a rhetorical question: "What colors work well, and what names can you use for the colors?" directing the student to this place with what some colors look like, in combination with the words to get those appearances.
There are other attributes of web design where we can learn, by bad examples, from the mistakes and misjudgements of others, to not do that ourselves. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:08, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
If you want to add a Babel box to show what languages you speak, just follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Babel. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:26, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Arrangement of stuff on screen is very much browser dependent. See Cernen on Userbox arrangements.
It might be worth while reviewing Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability and its archives, such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/archive1, to see all of the areas where past Wiki articles have fallen short of some standards that you might desire to include in your work. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:13, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
You might also want to review the kind of standards found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. It is pretty wonderful that Wikipedia accomodates contributors from every nation and religion on the planet, where cultures and national interests can clash off-line. User:AlMac| (talk) 00:24, 24 December 2005 (UTC)