User talk:Wildheart7

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Redirects

Yes, we do have redirects. To create one type: #REDIRECT [[Destination here]] Hope that helped.----Skittles the hog--Talk 10:58, July 8, 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not aware of any faults concerning redirects and the technical aspects of wikia aren't really my field.----Skittles the hog--Talk 11:10, July 8, 2011 (UTC)

signature

I saw you message one User:CzechOut page, so sorry for butting in. The easiest thing for you to do if you want a custom signature is to go to "My Preferences" which is located under your Username at the top right hand corner. If you scroll down you will see an area to personalize your signature. (I'm not sure how to add colour etc).

Once your down, save it and you can sign your post with the four ~~~~ and this will automatically add your signature. Mini-mitch\talk 11:18, July 8, 2011 (UTC)

Please see help:signatures. I obviously don't know how you have your signature line set up in Special:Preferences, but that help file should give you a good overview of how to create a signature that works using templates.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  <span style="">07:05:24 Sat 09 Jul 2011 

Glad you found the help file useful, and that it was successful in instructing you how to make things work. Lets me know I was writing reasonably clearly. I made a slight change to your sig file (which, by the way, I quite like. Lovely retro 70s look). The link to user talk pages is user talk:username not talk:username. So, as you can see, talk:Wildheart7 is a redlink, while user talk:Wildheart7 is a working bluelink. (Well, cause we're on that page right now, it's actually a black link. But what's a shade or two between friends?)

A little word of caution about font families. In high web design theory, you should create what's called a "font stack", rather than including only one family. The chances of most people actually having Consolas on their sstem is quite small. (About a quarter of Windows users don't have the font installed. But 75% of Mac users don't have it installed. And Linux/Ubuntu users don't even have Consolas available to them at all.) So you should create a list of alternative fonts that are somewhat close to what you want. Peoples' browsers will then try each of the fonts, in order, until it finds one it can use. Click here for a good overview of the concept, and here for a free font stack generator that tells you the probability that your font stack will result in a font that people actually have on their systems. (On my system, incidentally, your signature is just falling through to the random generic font of Tahoma.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  <span style="">20:57:19 Sat 09 Jul 2011 

Format for font families is straightforward. It's just a matter of listing them, separated by commas. I've taken the liberty of building a bit of a font stack for you. It'd look something like this:

font-family: Consolas,

Monaco,

'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono',

'Nimbus Mono L',

monospace;

The thing about Consolas that I gather you like about Consolas is that it's monospace and that it has a line through zeros. Monaco does the samething for 99.5% of all Mac users, so they're taken care of. It also picks up a sliver of Windows and Linux users. Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is, I think, the same thing for Linux users, although it's a little less ubiquitous, so you need Nimbus Mono L in there to round out the Linux guys. This leaves you with about 17% of all Windows users to take care of, which I guess if I weren't trying to do this in a hurry, I'd be able to figure out. But, I'm just gonna let them fall through to any old monospace font, since you don't actually have a zero in your name anyway.

So there ya go. Note that the families don't haveto be on separate lines. I just did that for clarity. You can certainly get away with:

<span style="font-family:Consolas,Monaco,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Nimbus Mono L',monospace;">Enter text here</span> 

Also, you can put single quotes around the one-word fonts, but you don't have to. The final, generic font (monospace), should probably not go in single quotes. I'm honestly not sure if it would hurt things, but I've never seen it done. Finally, observe how the final bit of punctuation is a semi-colon. That lets the system know when the definition of the font-family is over. You can put additional styling elements after that, such as font-size, color, whatever, but each stylistic instruciton must be separated from the next by a semi-colon.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  <span style="">22:43:44 Sat 09 Jul 2011 

Well, you're certainly welcome. As you may have gathered, I am your "tech admin" for this wiki, so if you have any other technical issues, please do not hestiate to call again. Other useful people on technical matters — in case I'm not here when you need me — include (in no particular order)

• user:Tangerineduel, who would never describe himself as a techy, but who usually knows his way around most basic to intermediate code)
• user:sulfur, who isn't actually an admin here, but as one of the prime admin at the Star Trek wiki, is the guy I go to when I get stuck), and
• user:Ausir, who's a wikia admin, as well as a more active part of the technically advanced Fallout wiki team.

There are other people around who can help you with tech stuff if you just ask at forum:Panopticon, but I thought you might like four names right up front of people who can help you more directly.

I know your user page says you're not going to "seriously" edit here, but we sure could use people with previous wiki experience. So I hope you'll find this a good environment in which to satisfy your occasional twinge for wiki editing.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  <span style="">04:40:37 Mon 11 Jul 2011 

Thanks for your kind words. Time stamp customization is also covered at help:signatures — though in fairness that section was added likely after you initially read it. Just go to the help page, hit your keyboard's "end" key, and read the last section.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  <span style="">16:38:12 Mon 11 Jul 2011