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Welcome to the user page design center. Here you will find resources for developing your user page. Enjoy!

If you are an absolute beginner,(not a beginner) you might consider using [[Wikipedia:User Page Design Center/Style#Article format|the standard article format]] for your userpage. That should suffice while you're learning the ropes. If you don't have a user page yet and don't know how to create a page, then click on your user name at the top of the screen and follow the instructions (if the page already exists, your username will be blue instead of red). If you don't have a user account, then click on "log in" at the top of the page, and then click on "Create an account" and fill in the boxes. Write your password down somewhere in case you forget it, and whatever you do, don't forget where you put your password!

Eventually, active Wikipedians turn their attention to their user pages. Creating a nice user page can be a daunting and time consuming task. One can spend countless hours searching the User and Wikipedia namespaces for ideas on what to include and design features to add, and even longer trying to figure out how to put them all together. Many resources and examples have been gathered and presented here to save users time which they can in turn apply to improving the encyclopedia. Simply cut and paste the wikicode of the design elements you wish to use on your userpage; and then modify them if you like, to create your own personal style. Browse the [[Wikipedia:User Page Design Center/User Page Hall of Fame|User Page Hall of Fame]] as examples of what others have done with their pages.

K.S. Ernst

K.S. Ernst has been writing poetry, making art, and creating visual poetry works for over 40 years. [http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/ernst.php] Some of the most interesting implications, of K.S. Ernst’s artwork are how it reads as [[Creative Non-Fiction]], and [[Visual Poetry]]/Visual Fiction. When the story of Creative Non-Fiction and Visual Poetry is told in the United States, works by K.S. Ernst are imperative to that telling. Poetry Magazine ([1]), published by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, will feature Visual Poetry in its upcoming issue. When published, K.S. Ernst’s art will be on newsstands nationwide. For now, Ernst calls herself a “visio-textual artist,” who hopes that really great art is not judged by the neatness of the category in which it fits. (Interview, Amy Hufnagel)

Born in St Louis, MO, USA (1946- ), she is the daughter of a mother visual artist/furniture builder and father who was a Professor of Psychology with an expertise in auditory and [[cutaneous communications]]. Please review at [2]. She has two sisters. Her parent’s academic work took Ernst from St. Louis, MO, to Charlottesville, VA, to Princeton, NJ, at each place’s best institution. She spent her first year of college at Smith College and then married Ernie Ernst, a successful manufacturer, collector, jazz musician, and nature lover. K.S. Ernst graduated from Monmouth University and has spent her adult life living in New Jersey.

While Ernst is best known as one of the most important examples of late twentieth-century/early twenty-first century female visual poets in America, she is also known in the digital arts and fine arts communities. Ernst’s work is applicable to the genres of sculpture, multimedia, works on paper, and new digital works. Her work has critical applicability to art historical discussions regarding late twentieth-century use of image and text, or perhaps more succinctly the “text as image” trend as seen in important contemporary artists like Xu Bing.