User blog:Mistertrouble189/Word Bubbles, Crideas and Userboxes

Hello members of the wiki. The blogs system was recently added to this system thanks to Wikia. Users are now able to create and post blog articles. I would like to take a bit to talk about word bubbles, userboxes, and crideas, three new additions to this wiki thanks to our members' ideas and visions.

Word Bubbles are a way of spicing up messages and signatures on talk pages. Fellow admin Blanky and I saw this feature on the Zeldapedia wiki and thought it was very cool how users were able to customize their word bubbles in terms of font, color and even add a personal avatar. We found it a neat way to express ourselves and thought it would be a nice addition to the community here at MySims and hope users will take advantage of it. To learn more about them, visit the Crideas page or see Template:Word Bubble.

Crideas is a mixture of "create" and "ideas", as presented by user Animal Crossing Leader. It is a suggestion forum where members of the wiki can present ideas that can somehow improve the wiki and the community, something that is beneficial to all and enjoyable or can enhance certain aspects. The forum already has two ideas, whom which both have been approved. We encourage all to visit the talk page from time to time to see discussions of crideas and voice out your opinion and vote. To learn more about Crideas, see My Sims Wiki:Suggestions.

Last but not least, Userboxes were implemented to this wiki yesterday after user Orange Yoda brought it up. He noticed that there was only one userbox, for SysOps. Why not create more userboxes for everyone to use? Blanky and I immeadiatley approved of this and she has began working on some templates, recently completing MySims interest templates. (I even posted some on my page!) These userboxes can feature a favorite Sim, interest, island, essence, etc. You can make requests at My Sims Wiki:Userboxes on the talk page. Be sure to visit that page in order to check out any new boxes and to recieve codes to put on your user page. ALSO, be sure to add a Template:Userboxes Cabinet and a Template:EndOfUserboxes to create a neat column to hold your userboxes. To learn more about Userboxes, see Template:Userbox.

Hope you guys enjoy these new features! Feel free to comment or create your own blog posts!

--Mistertroube189, July 2, 2009, 2:25 am EST