User talk:Fisheye

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Fisheye, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Vsmith 04:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the Wikiproject for Science!

We're glad to have someone of your expertise involved with the project, and hope you enjoy your time contributing! The above post gives you most of the information you need, but anything further that you need please don't hesitate to drop me a line on my talk page. You may also be interested in adding the following userbox to your page: {{User WikiProject Science}}


-- Serephine / talk - 03:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Edit: that was quick! Thanks very much!

[edit] Formatting with HTML

Feel free to delete this if you don't find it terribly useful, but I thought you might like a crash course in modifying your user/talk pages to have boxes. A tip about HTML: it uses "tags" to effect elements in a web page, most tags used must have an opening tag and a closing tag in order to effect a page. An example is how to make text bold with HTML: you would enter

  <b>Text to be bolded</b>

Which would produce "Text to be bolded"

  • The angled brackets signify to your web browser that whatever is contained within them is going to be HTML
  • The tag for specifying bold writing is "b"
  • Any text in-between the opening and closing tags will become bold writing
  • The browser knows when to stop bolding text by the closing bracket placed after the text to be bolded. All closing tags will have the same format, that is, a forward slash followed by the tag and enclosed in angled brackets.



However, we're using Wikipedia in addition to HTML, so for simple formatting (like bolding) Wiki has most of the tags covered with its own. A full and easy to read list is available here: Help:Editing



Now to create those boxes on user pages. You won't understand a lot of the tags used here but a quick Google will explain them if you feel the need to know. It's only necissary to know what to put into a page to get the desired result, or at least, that is how I usually work with HTML!

My talk page uses the more simply understood code of both my pages, so we'll start with that. When you go into edit mode, you'll notice a string to tags clumped together resembling the following:

<table cellpadding="2" style="background: #C0C0C0"><td valign="top"><div style="background: #EEEEEE; padding: 2em; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">

This clump is all the tags necissary for your browser to know how to display my text in those boxes (they are actually 1-row 1-column tables). The main tag to look at here is the table tag - it has a whole list of parametres after it which specify how it should look.

  • Cell padding adjusts how much of a clear area between the text and the borders of the table there is - the higher the number the larger the area.
  • The #C0C0C0 gibberish after "background" is the special hex number which specifies the border colour - in my case a dark grey. Some values can be found on the web here: [1]
  • Likewise, the next hex values you come to is #EEEEEE, the colour for the inside area of the table (light grey).
  • The following after "font-family" tells your browser what font to use in the table. Take out the entire font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; parameter if you want to just have Wikipedia's default font Verdana.



After adding that big clump in front of the text you wish to be contained within a table, don't forget to close off your tags with their correct end tags. To do this, add

</td></div></table>

to the end of your text. Feel free to copy+paste this in your own pages for use or to experiment with. The only way to learn what everything does is to put in your own values and see what comes out - happy editing! -- Serephine / talk - 03:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

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