User:The Transhumanist/User page design/Style
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[edit] Skins
[edit] Formatting
[edit] Layout themes
[edit] Article format
The default format for user pages is the article format. That is, standard headings, paragraphs, bulleted lists, etc. But an article-styled user page need not look drab, and is more than adequate for presenting information about yourself. Since it is so easy, it's a perfect place to start. See the following user pages as examples of well-developed user pages in article format:
[edit] Menu format
[edit] Table formats
- Main Page format
- Custom Portal format
- Custom table format
- With menu
- Without menu
[edit] Format elements
[edit] Borders
Border look nice. Borders add spice. And they're the right price.
The examples below include closing codes, which may make it difficult to utilize them on talk pages. To have borders and backgrounds extend to the end of the page regardless of what is added, simply leave off the closing codes (</div>, </tr>, </td>, |}) at the end of the border markup examples.
Some example borders:
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- The above design is best used for short pages, as it mimicks a picture frame. It would work well for images, awards, etc.
[edit] Round corners
As of November 2006, only Mozilla (Firefox) supports round corners. To add round corners to a box or frame, include the {{Round corners}}; template (just as shown, including semi-colon) as a style parameter. Note that the element to be rounded must have a border in the first place. Here's a markup example:
<div style="border:1px solid #5599FF; {{Round corners}}; margin: 5px;">
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</div>
To see the specific code for creating round corners, see Template:Round corners.
For a cool example of the use of round corners, see Zeerus' user page
[edit] Color
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[edit] Change page color with CSS
[edit] Contents
To suppress the automatic table of contents box from appearing on your userpage, place the following line somewhere on your userpage:
__NOTOC__
To have the table of contents box float to the right, place the following line where you want the toc to appear:
{{tocright}}
[edit] Scroll boxes
To create a scrollbox, use the "overflow:auto" style code. Be sure to also specify a "height: nnpx", where nn is the height you want. Here's an example of one 150px tall:
- What is the meaning of life? And what does that question mean?
- Where is the line between life and non-life?
- Where does choice come from?
- Why is life proactive, as opposed to nonlife, which simply obeys the laws of physics, without using energy to—say—defy gravity?
- Can emotion be programmed?
- Where do we feel?
- Why does art move us?
- What makes us want to be better, to have purpose?
- Who are you and what do you want?
- That is, who are you, really? The true you, deep inside.
- And what do you really want (but for whatever reason haven't committed to getting)?
[edit] Show/Hide sections
Here's an example of collapsed/expandable sections:
[edit] Action links
[edit] Switched features
[edit] See also
| Formatting Text |
| Formatting Pictures |
| Making Subpages |
| Title Headers |
| Suggested Tools |
