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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 new to Wikipedia, you might consider using [[Wikipedia:User Pagepage Designdesign Centercenter/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 Pagepage Designdesign Centercenter/User Page Hall of Fame|User Page Hall of Fame]] as examples of what others have done with their pages.