DareNET Wiki:Widgets and more

This page contains information on using various widgets, templates, tags, etc that have been added to help you spice up your user pages.

User Infobox
The user infobox is a template that allows you to neatly display a picture, and some miscellaneous information about yourself (e.g. what channels you frequent, your name, age, etc) on your user page.

Complete instructions on how to use it can be found here

Example: 

User Badges
A few user badges have been created (with more on the way) that allow you further express just how cool you really are :-P. They are added to your user page by way of template. A complete list of these badges can be found here.

Example:  would add the following badge to your user page:

Adding Videos
Currently we support the embedding of YouTube and GoogleVideos on user pages; however, more are planned in the future.

YouTube:  To embed a YouTube video on your user page, you'll need to use the tag,: video id

For example, using 3857zrYS6sM will embed the following YouTube video:

3857zrYS6sM

The video id is the part shown in bold in the following URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 3857zrYS6sM

GoogleVideo:  To embed a GoogleVideo video on your user page, you'll need to use the tag,: docid

For example, using -4996028175639202758 will embed the following Google video:

-4996028175639202758

The docid is the part shown in bold in the following URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid= -4996028175639202758 &vt=lf

Last.fm Widget
For those of you who have a Last.fm account, you can display your last.fm radio station on your page by using the tag.

Example:  user=UserName|color=red would output something similiar to:

user=secrtagnt|color=red

Colorize Text
Want to spice up your text? Then try the tag.

Example:  This text has been colorized! would output:

This text has been colorized!