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Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia and search engine published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also available online via annual subscription, although later articles could also be viewed for free online with advertisements. [1]
Welcome to the User page design guide (start here) About you Navigation aids & Metadata Your scripts Style (formatting) Menus & subpages Art, Decor, etc. ...
If you are new to Wikipedia, you might consider using the standard article format for your userpage initially. 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).
The news was not universally well-received, and many people were critical of the fact that Microsoft was only proposing to allow suggestions about existing articles, excluding ideas for new articles. On the Encarta blog Archived 2005-04-09 at the Wayback Machine , Encarta editor David Hirning elaborated on this point.
As of 2018, the Portals Project has made some astounding advancements in portal design, making portals a breeze to create and modify. One possible application of the new portal design is as a user page. For an example of a user page set up as a portal, see User:The Transhumanist.
Techie web page design is what I do best. In my continuing effort to get rid of the links at the top of the page, I've put a magic QuickBar on my sample pages . Try the button in the top right with a relatively modern browser.
This affords the opportunity to add the talk page and special pages to the mix (like displaying the user's contributions and other display commands from Wikipedia's "special" menu). Some menus look just like navigation bars, others have icons, some are integrated into the page's border, and others are vertical lists (usually boxed).
That makes your user page one of the most easily accessible pages to you on Wikipedia, making it a powerful tool. One of the things you can use your user page for is navigation. It is the perfect place for bookmarks and navbars/navboxes, to get you where you need to go on Wikipedia and related destinations fast.