User:Kirsty cotton/sandpit

Welcome to the Urban Dead wiki.

This is meant to walk new or inexperienced users through making their user page and first public edit. Before we get to that, there are a few "areas" on the wiki. The first being user pages (they begin with "User:"). On your own user page you can do nearly anything you want. There are some limits, but you have the greatest freedom and other users have the least rights. The public area is further divided into true public pages (such as buildings or suburbs), group pages and administration pages. Generally, you will only be editing true public pages. You will know if you are allowed to edit a group's page. Administration pages are a bit tricky, you may have need for them but you might go years without needing them. However, if you are ever in doubt, simply check the sysop list and ask a sysop on their talk page.

Making a User Page

Once you've gotten logged in, you should be ready to edit. Click on your user name on the top right of the screen to go to your user page. You will notice to the top right (next to the Urban Dead logo) there are links to user page, discussion, create (later it will say edit), history, and watch. Click on create. Before we get into setting up any type of page, go ahead and type some in the editor box and use the preview button to see how it looks. You will be using the preview button often to see how your changes look before hitting submit.

We will be using the coding from my user page, since it is relatively easy to change and a bit more in-depth than a template. As a side note, my wiki page is actually based on (read as: stolen from) the work of User:Xyu, who made it for the Mall Tour '11 event. Just copy the below code (found inside the box) to your user page. Following the code, you will see the page without any changes. After that we will get back to making the page.

__NOTOC__ 
__NOEDITSECTION__
<center>
<div style="background-color: silver; width: 700px; padding: 20px; min-width: 700px;">
<div style="background-color: dark gray; width: auto; padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px; min-width: 400px;">
{|style="background-color: darkgray; border:darkgray 5px solid;"
|-
|This is where your user name goes
|}
</div>

<div style="background-color: darkgray; padding: 10px; text-align: left; color: Black; {{border-radius|5px}};">
==<div align="center"><span style="Color: black">User Information</span></div align>==

{| style="background:darkgrey" align="center"
|
| You can tell about yourself or use templates here.
|}
</div align>


<div style="background-color: darkgray; padding: 10px; text-align: left; color: Black; {{border-radius|5px}};">
{|width=100%
|align=left|'''The name of your character goes here.'''

Joined: YYYY-MM-DD

Character Type: Survivor, Zombie, etc.

Character profile:[http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=?????? <span style="color: black">Urban Dead profile</span>]

Current status: Active

Theme Music: Theme song
|align=right|[[Image:Img_upld.gif|200px]]
|}<br>
{|align="center"
| {{Survivor}}
| {{Zombie}}
|} 
<br><br>
</div align>
</div><br><br>
Page design stolen from [[Mall_Tour_'11|Mall Tour '11]]</center>

Without making any changes you get:

This is where your user name goes

User Information

You can tell about yourself or use templates here.

The name of your character goes here. Joined: YYYY-MM-DD Character Type: Survivor, Zombie, etc. Character profile:Urban Dead profile Current status: Active Theme Music: Theme song

Proud To Be Alive This user is a survivor and proud of it.

Proud To Be Dead This user is a zombie and proud of it.

Page design stolen from Mall Tour '11

Make the changes you want and use the preview button to view the page before hitting submit. You can also check links to make sure they work (just open them in a new tab/window). Be sure to add the correct character id numbers to your profile link. Now, if you want, try changing some of the colors. Use simple color names and make sure to make them one word (such as the darkgray used above). This gives colors and their names. Once you have the page finished, go ahead and hit submit. You've now created your user page.

Making Your First Public Page Edit

...updating building status