User:Wildheart7/Tutorial

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR IF ANYTHING WRITTEN HERE CONFUSES YOU, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE ON MY TALK PAGE ABOUT IT.

=How to Personalize Your Time Stamp=

Okay, so you want to personalize your timestamp, eh? First of all, you might want to learn how to use wiki code. If you don't already know how, you should check out Iceheart's tutorial, which outlines how to use basic wiki code. It's okay, I'm patient. Go learn, and I'll wait.

Basic Signature
Next you have you have to put the signature coding into your siggie box on your preferences page. This normal coding, which you learned from Iceheart's tutorial, gives you your plain signature. For example, I would put

into the signature box on my preferences page, which would give me this:

23:44 Sun Nov 13 23:44, November 13, 2011 (UTC)

when I sign with four tildes, like this: ~

Time Stamp
Now you have to create a new page. To format your signature, you created a subpage of your userpage called "MyUserName/Sig", and to format your time stamp, you create a subpage called "MyUserName/Time". If you don't know how to create a subpage, all you have to do is click here.

On your /Time page, you have to put all the normal coding that you want, except you cannot have the and  tags. Instead, you put the span tags on your preferences page. To look at an example of what it might look like, you can look at my /Time page.

After you enter in your coding on your /Time page, you have to decide what you want your time to look like. For example, you can format your time so that it shows the day, the month, or the year. You can shorten the day, you can have the minute you signed up until the second, or you can do all I have said. To do this, you put in this code:

and substitute the letters I put in for whatever you want. To get the list of what each letter represents, check out this exhaustive table.

Okay, so to sum it all up... what I would put into my siggie box would look like this:

For you, you have to substitute your own username for mine, and the letters for what you want your time stamp to look like. I hope I could help, and if you didn't understand anything, please leave me a message on my talk page. Later, 23:44 Sun Nov 13