User:MacGyverMagic/Userpage archive

This page serves as a historical archive of my userpage designs. I hope you enjoy and learn from it. The design of this page was taken from Jaranda.

After some intial dabbling [1], I did my first major redesign
which used columns and had a nice blue color. (see design 1)

After an initial failed attempt to change the color of my userpage [2], I managed to change the color to yellow later that same day[3]. Who knew capital letters where that important? This design remained with just minor modifications for over a year during which time it got pretty bulky (see design 1 beta).

My current design is a combination of a header by Wackymacs and layout by Tijuana Brass. It also includes icons and collapseble menus as used by the Italian user Hills. The section edit links didn't work until I perused the code of Nightstallion's userpage who also gave me the idea to add interwiki links to my navigational bar. The aim of this design was to cut a lot of the bloating and improve navigation and usefulness. The hardest part was to get the awards properly formatted. Long lines of text often made the side bar overlap with other items.

So now I've got a great-looking userpage. But userpage design is a fast-moving world. I wonder what my next change will be... Anyway, now that my main user page is to my liking, I'm moving to formatting my subpages. Any ideas on design improvements are welcome at my talk page.