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Once your down, save it and you can sign your post with the four <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> and this will automatically add your signature. [[User:Mini-mitch|Mini-mitch]]\[[User talk:Mini-mitch|talk]] 11:18, July 8, 2011 (UTC) | Once your down, save it and you can sign your post with the four <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> and this will automatically add your signature. [[User:Mini-mitch|Mini-mitch]]\[[User talk: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. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''07:05:24 Sat '''09 Jul 2011 </span> | :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. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''07:05:24 Sat '''09 Jul 2011 </span> | ||
::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 [http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/22/complete-guide-to-css-font-stacks/ here] for a good overview of the concept, and [http://www.codestyle.org/servlets/FontStack 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.) {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''20:57:19 Sat '''09 Jul 2011 </span> | |||
