User:RoxasXIIILK/Sig Tutorial

Step 1: What is a Sig?
A sig or signature, like a real life signature you use on important documents and such, is your identification that you use all the time on the wiki. Before you create a custom sig your signature is simply your username and the time stamp. You may know a sig as signing your posts with ~. Once you create a custom signature however, which is a personal and original signature you creat to express yourself, you can set it up to activate when you use ~. Now that you know what a sig is, you are ready to learn how to make your very own custom sig!

Step 2: Creating Your Custom Sig
Making a custom sig is actually quite easy. It's all about arranging wiki coding in a way that expresses your own personal creativity. And always remember this is  YOUR OWN  sig, no one else's. You must always make your sig reflect your own creative and personality not someone else's. This is your chance to be creative and display yourself in an original manner. This all means you should create the sig according to your own style no one else's. So now that you're in terms of how to go about creating your custom sig, let's getting started. Below is all the coding you will need to create the sig. You'll also want to put links to both your userpage and your talkpage so you are easy to contact through your sig. Use the example below to see what I mean. You also must not make the sig too bit. All item you put on the sig such as images shouldn't be bigger than 17px. Read all the codes and perhaps practice it somewhere. On the very bottom of this page you will find an area to practice your sig. Just put the code in there but  DO NOT  hit publish. Only press preview to see what it looks like. I repeat, NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER HIT PUBLISH EVER!!! When you've gotten it to how you like it, again NOT PRESSING PUBLISH get back to this page and continue reading.


 * (text) or (text) = (text)
 * (text) or (text) = (text)
 * (text) = (text)
 * (text) = (text)
 * (number)px --> DaysRoxas.png = DaysRoxas.png
 * (text) --> (text) = (text)
 * (text) --> (text) = (text)
 * (text) --> Roxas is the best ;P = Roxas is the best ;P
 * (text) -->  Roxas is the best ;P  =  Roxas is the best ;P
 *  ROXAS IS THE BEST XP   =    ROXAS IS THE BEST XP 

Example:  Seeker of  Darkness '

Step 3: Setting Up Your Custom Sig
Now that you have created a custom sig you are proud to call your own, you are now ready to set it up so it activated when signing your posts with ~. To do this you need to follow 3 simple steps:


 * 1) Create a Sig1 page- Create a page called User:(Your Username Here)/Sig1. For example mine is User:RoxasXIIILK/Sig1. You may be asking yourself... "Well how do I make a new page Roxas?? GREAT confuse me more why don't you! XP" Well don't worry those are not my intentions..... this time >:) But anyway, to create a new page you can do one of three things: You can; A) Go to the main page and scroll down to the "Helping Out" section and type the complete name of the new page in the bar, then click the "Create new article" button to create it then get started. B) Go to the navigation bar on the left of the screen and go to the search bar and type in the complete name of the page then hit search. It should bring you to a page that has the title you types it and say "This page needs content. You can help by adding a sentence or a photo!" Just hit create and get started. Or my personal favorite C) Just edit the page and write in the name of the page in – if it's a template (like this is) or in if it's a regular page then click PREVIEW NOT PUBLISH again PREVIEW  NOT  PUBLISH and follow the red link it gives to the page and follow the same steps as B. So for example lets say my name is Subject R and I'm trying to make a sig page. So I'd put  and follow to red link it gives me to the page and get started. Now you may be thinking at this point, "Get started with WHAT Roxas??? Counting geese and putting them into lovely baskets?" The answer to that is no not in this particular tutorial. :3 Anyway, once you've got the page you are going to copy and paste you're custom sig code onto the page and publish it. Once that's done you can go onto the next step.
 * 2) Create a Sig2 page- Now you are going to create a page named User:(Your Username Here)/Sig2. This step is just like the one above but this time you do not paste the custom sig code on the page. This time you paste the name of the Sig1 page onto the Sig2 page. For example I put on mine . Note the brackets as this is a template page. One this is done you can go onto the last step.
 * 3) Setting up your custom sig for usage- Now you are ready to set up for custom sig for usage. First you need to go to "My Preferences". If you don't know how to do that.... among being partially hopeless, just go to the top right of the page where you will find a button somewhere that says, "My Preferences". Now go to your preference page and scroll down to the "Signature" section where you'll find a check box that says "Custom Signature". Check off the box and in the bar above it put in the name of your Sig2 page. Again, for example I would put . After that is done then you go down, press save and BLAMO you're done!! :3

Step 4: Using Your Custom Sig
Now that you have successfully set your custom sig up, you can activate it whenever you sign your post with or
 * ~ if you want the sig and time stamp (which is mandatory for most posts). 22:29, August 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * if you want to simply show your sig and nothing else.

Good luck and congratulations for successfully creating your very own custom signature! have a great day!!