User talk:Sumit Desai

Hello, I'm here to answer your question! First of all, let me get this out of the way:

Welcome!

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User Page Question

So now, let me answer the question you left on my talk page:

Hey, i was wondering how you did all the cloured boxes at the top of your page that has little peices of info about you. did you use some kind of tool for it, or make it yourself?? If it isn't your i dont suppose you can help me so i can construct my own?? Would be very grateful

I dont know how internal messages work so can you just email me at *@gmail.com

Thanks

First of all, be sure to sign everything that you write on talk pages by typing ~~~~. It will automatically put your name, a link to your User page, and the time that you signed it.

In terms of the colorful boxes on my User page, they are called Userboxes. You can find a list of them at Wikipedia:Userboxes. They are all templates. I don't know how much you know about templates, but suffice it to say that you can access most of these by typing in their template names in two braces. For instance {{User:UBX/Jelly Beans}} gives:

This user enjoys jelly beans.

Now, some templates have parameters, which means you can customize them. For instance, the {{User Birthday}} template lets you put your birthday inside it. To do this, first follow the link for this template. See how it has {{{1}}}? That means that the first thing you put after a pipe (|) when you call the template will go where the {{{1}}} is. For instance, {{User:Llama man/Userboxes/Birthday|January 1}} gives:

This user was born on January 1.

If you want to create a user box, but do not see it anywhere, just copy the following:

{{subst:Userbox
  |id       = id text or image
  |id-c     = id background color
  |id-fc    = id font color
  |id-s     = id text size
  |info     = info text
  |info-c   = info background color
  |info-fc  = info font color
  |info-s   = info text size
  |border-c = box color
  |border-s = border width in pixels
}}

and fill in the fields. For instance, my Boston University Userbox was done like this:

BU	This user attended Boston University.

The code for it is:

{{subst:Userbox
  |id       = BU
  |id-c     = white
  |id-fc    = red
  |id-s     = 24
  |info     = This user attended [[Boston University]].
  |info-c   = #dcdcdc
  |info-fc  = black
  |info-s   = 8
  |border-c = black
  |border-s = 1
}}

I hope I haven't been too long-winded! If you have any questions, just navigate to my talk page, and let me know! tiZom_(2¢) 01:12, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]