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I'll offer any support you need, just visit my talk page and I'll be happy to help! Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge). (talk) 02:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Adoption, Userboxes, and Related

[edit] adoption

I see that Qmwne has said he's willing to adopt you. Would you like someone else to adopt you too, if so I will if you say you'd like it.:) Sticky Parkin 23:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

If a thing has a userbox, usually one of the words in the userbox is a link back to the relevant instructions/subject, so you can find what you need to do a bit easier. When it comes to the userboxes, it seemed to say I should do it, so I did.:) Tell Qmwne they can still be another wikimum or dad for you too if they want.:) Is there anything you are struggling with on wiki at the mo that I can help you with? If so, please let me know. If not, let me know if you need help at any point in future. How have you felt about your time here so far? No I'm not even an admin, so you don't have to worry that I'm an evil one. :) And as your adopter, I'll try and make sure you don't do anything to get banned, or people don't 'squish' you like a bug.:)Sticky Parkin 02:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm off to sleep at the mo as it's 3.40 am here, but thanks for telling me and I'll look tomorrow I promise. I see I'll learn as much as you.:) Have you asked Qmwne, if he has the boxes how you would like, he could give you tips. As you can see from my page, this is not my specialist subject, but it'll be good for me to learn about it too.:) Speak more in about 8 hours lol.:) Sticky Parkin 02:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Insomnia is a terrible thing lol. Ok, what I suggest you do is to 'borrow' his code. For those of us that are hopeless at these things it's the only way, and what I did for some parts of mine. Click on the edit button to edit his user page then copy and paste what he has there into your own userpage, above what you have there at the mo. Then change things such as the name, different info, names for sections etc and stuff he's written and cut and paste in your own info from below. You can change the colours of things too. Instead of the numbers for colours, which look like #EFF000 or something, you can get a lot of colours by writing "pink" "blue" "green" etc. If you need a specific shade you can use a chart like these that I find through google [1] to replace the codes. On your userpage write something like "The inspiration for this userpage was the userpage of User:Qmwne235", so you're giving him credit.:) Sticky Parkin 09:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I lifted the coding off of somebody else (not a userpage, but a guide to coding), so I didn't actually create it. There is no need to give credit to me. I suggest you do what Sticky Parkin suggests. Just cut and paste and change a few things like color and titles as needed. --Qmwne235 01:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Coding for hiding boxes

I'm not really sure how to code it, since I really just copied it off of someone else. However, below is a sample of the coding on my user page. You can modify the amount of padding, the font sizes, the border styles and widths, the colors, and text alignment by changing them.

<div style="padding: 0px; background: #f5deb3; border-style: ridge; border-width: 5px; border-color: #C6AEC7;"> <tr><td valign="top"><div style="background: #66CDAA; border-style: ridge; border-width: 2px; border-color: #EBDDE2; padding: 1em; text-align: justify;">

<div class="NavFrame" style="border-style: none; padding: 0px; font-size: 100%;"> <div class="NavFrame" style="border-style: none; text-align: left; border: #F4H6S5 solid 2px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; padding: 5px; font-size: 85%;"> <div class="NavHead" style="{{Round corners}}; background: #DDEEEE; text-align: center; padding: 2px; font-size: 160%;"><font face="arial" color="#6B00A8" size="+1"><b>About me and accomplishments</b></font></div> <div class="NavContent" style="background: #DDFFFF; display: none; font-size: 100%;">

To end the divisions, just type in </div> at the proper spot. You can use this to help with formatting (removing the user page template and blue box, the line breaks, and the "nowiki" templates). By the way, I'm fine with unadopting you, but if you need help, feel free to leave a message. --Qmwne235 20:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I placed lots of things that look like this: <nowiki> throughout the coding above, although you can't see them. This is so that the coding doesn't actually create what it's supposed to. The divisions are the borders and the little boxes you want to make. When you want to end a box or any other kind of division, write </div>. Whenever you want to end something, there will be a backslash, as in the div template above. Removing the backslash will create the code to begin in. The user page template is the template that says "This is a Wikipedia user page." The line breaks are things that look like this: <br>. They're useful when one can't normally make spaces. I used them above to make the coding readable, but you'll have to remove them. Hope this helps! --Qmwne235 01:10, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, I was out for a drink last night- but fortunately for my health that's not all that frequent and occurence.:) By padding I think it means the distance between border and content of info box. [2]. If I want to find something on wiki I use google search, it's easier than trying to find it in all the help pages here (but don't tell anyone I said that :) ). Sticky Parkin 10:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't really know either, I just like the word. Whatever it is, I'm sure it doesn't need to be adjusted much anyway. --Qmwne235 23:21, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] boxes

Yes I think we'll start our own section. For formatting boxes, margins etc, I think I just spent ages trying it on my page, and clicking "preview" until it looked ok....in your page history (click on it at top of page) in another version by me I showed you how to make a simple box and a userbox. It's there if you look at a previous version of this page, I just moved it off here so it wasn't in the way. I've been put to shame- this is my other adoptee I just adopted, look what he can do lol User:Editor510/Publicly_Available_Userboxes I'm not worthy! You might want to ask him stuff too.:) Sticky Parkin 21:27, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Manual of Style

You may have noticed the link way at the top of this page to the Wikipedia Manual of Style. If you haven't already, I would suggest you read it; it's helpful in answering some of those ambiguous grammatical questions you might have. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the coding problems you're having. --Qmwne235 01:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Solution?

I already made some boxes. I hope that they will get better with some help. I got the code from SelfStudyBuddy. Chimchar monferno (talk) 22:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh you've got the collapsible things up now on your userpage.:) Well let me know if you get stuck with anything. Which are your home-made boxes? I've made two now.:) Sticky Parkin 23:18, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I was never completely sure if you were talking about collapsible boxes or userboxen (yes, that is the plural of userbox). Well, good job creating some. --Qmwne235 23:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
about making a column- I spotted a couple of characters of code SelfStudyBoy had and added them and it seemed to work. Hope you don't mind.:) Sticky Parkin 18:10, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I fixed the order of them, sorry if I made it look wrong for a bit.:) Why are you stressed if you don't mind me asking, is everything ok? Is it a real-life thing or do you mean coding- I agree it can be a bit evil lol.:) You can always contact me via 'email this user' rather than on wiki if there's anything you'd prefer to say more privately. Sticky Parkin 13:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Status

Original message

Odd, wonder why it got shut down. Anyway, my Status template is at User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate. That page has directions on how to install it on your userpage. Please note that in order for the update links to work correctly, you will need to install a script to your monobook.js file. If you have problems, feel free to let me know, but don't expect too fast a response - I'm on vacation. Hersfold non-admin(t/a/c) 00:25, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I tried. Look at my Userpage if you want to see the odd thing that happended. I did what the information page said. Everything should be okay. Could you tell me what's wrong? I would REALLY like it to work. Chimchar monferno (talk) 00:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I've heard that at the moment, the bot sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, for some reason. :) Sticky Parkin 11:40, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
(Hersfold smacks himself in the head) The problem with the links was your username - because it's two words, it breaks the URL into two pieces - http:// all the way to Chimchar, then monferno all the way to the end. In order for it to work, you have to replace the space with an underscore: _. I've already done this for you, and set your status to Offline. So, provided you installed that script, everything should work. Sorry for that, I didn't even think of that when I wrote the template, but it's definitely in the documentation now :-). Hersfold (t/a/c) 23:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User Page

Hi,

I'm not sure how it's happening, but your “Statusbox” is overlapping onto your “message” and green “userbar” boxes and messing up your user page when viewed in Firefox. Displays OK though in MS InternetExplorer…

Last good version viewed in Firefox was [this one]

Hope this helps.

Best wishes
--Badgernet (talk) 08:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] userpage

I don't know if there's a way you can make your computer screen mimic that of a laptop lol but imagine that it's been designed on a laptop, which also uses firefox, but is about 11 inches wide :) The barnstars are a lovely width on the page. Feel free to tinker with it so it looks its best on an average-size screen.:) How I get over problems like your statusbot overlapping is just to hit return several times in the edit window underneath it to move the other stuff down.:) But yes feel free to improve upon my userpage, as it's optimized for 11 inches lol:) Sticky Parkin 00:34, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah HersFold sorted the statusbot display, excellent. Sticky Parkin 00:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)