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In 2003, 2004, and 2006, there were successful main page redesign proposals. Since 2006, there have been no successful proposals to significantly redesign the main page. However, it is always possible to request feedback from other editors on proposed changes, usually through discussion or requests for comment at Talk:Main Page , Wikipedia ...
But, before you use images, be sure to see Wikipedia:Image dos and don'ts. Images are also a major component of the encyclopedia, and are another way for contributors to shine. Your user page is the perfect place to showcase your visual contributions, sprinkled throughout the page, or presented as a gallery.
An image that would otherwise overwhelm the text space available within a 1024×768 window should generally be formatted as described in relevant formatting guidelines (e.g. WP:IMAGESIZE, MOS:IMGSIZE, Help:Pictures § Panoramas). Try to harmonize the sizes of images on a given page in order to maintain visual coherence.
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.
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.
The Picture of the Day, which changes daily, is currently displayed every day on the Main Page, and you can use it to decorate your userpage as well... Here's what the various picture of the day templates look like. To place them on your user page, include the corresponding double-curly bracket code, and the picture will be displayed automagically:
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Then create a new page called User:USERNAME/Menu, and paste what you copied to there. Edit it to customize it to your purposes, and save. Then transcribe your menu page to your user and talk page (and/or to any of your other user subpages) by including it in curly brackets, like this: {{User:insert name here/Menu}}. Have fun.