HerrSticks

user profile

What a great profile. It looks extremely clean, well written and thought out.

Call me a "noob" if you will, but do you have any advice on creating a page, listing relevant information? Such as the info boxes on the side where you have personal facts listed such as degrees and whatnot. Did you write the HTML for that? Embed your own pictures? The user talk pages when edited are just a blank text box.

The reason why I ask is because I have used Wikipedia for years now, I value the institution and information. I figured it about time I started to contribute and give back to the community, but alas how can I be taken seriously when my user-page is empty and I'm lost in the anonymity of the internet.

I would love to list my relevant information, hobbies and knowledge on my page, but as I said before am at a loss to do that and make it look nice, streamlined and appealing.

Thanks HerrSticks (talk) 02:31, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Why thank you HerrSticks, and welcome to the editing side of Wikipedia. However, I can't really take that much credit for my look. Most of what I put on my user space I obtained by looking around at what other people had done, then copying the page source for what I liked and doing some fine tuning.

For user boxes, I recommend talking a look at Wikipedia:Userboxes. Down toward the bottom of that page are links to long lists of various user boxes. For the most part I'd image they have existing boxes for almost anything you would like to add. (I've actually trimmed down the user boxes on my page quite a bit as I think it is possible to have too many.)

Good luck with your user page.—RJH (talk) 19:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)