Forum:Fancy Sigs for Dummies

OK, I try to avoid creating new topics where possible by searching for the answer, but most of my learning has been from copying and pasting from others Source pages and from searching this community and help wikias, but on here I see lots of fancy colourful signatures with pictures and links and stuff like  but when I go to Template:User:Mathmagician I get a Profile Page, not the template that generates that fancy sig.

I am understanding I could stick with wikitext in Special:Preferences like eg: A nimal  C rossing   L eader  for  A nimal   C rossing   L eader

But I figure there's got to be some forums or blogs or how-to articles around somewhere I just haven't found yet outlining how to do the fancy ones? But in searching, all I can find is so many (really old) forums of community admins voting to ban them (which obviously are redundant forums since they've blown out in number). Cheers, DarkMoonRising 18:17, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

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Hmm, so I worked out somehow to look at a Signature Template you drop the "Template:" for some reason, so using http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User:DarkMoonRising/sig I can create a signature template :) Yey! I pretty much just copied Mathmagician's to start with... Let's see, now how to apply it... So if I put into Special:Preferences and hit Save... hmm, it changes to:  and gives me a Existing Signature above it that looks quite nice, with (timestamp omitted) on the right. So now do I use ~ to sign off?

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120612094918/paradiseislandhd/images/6/67/Dollars_small.pngDarkMoonRising €  talk   contribs   19:43, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

No, Time Stamp is screwed up... what am I missing?

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120612094918/paradiseislandhd/images/6/67/Dollars_small.pngDarkMoonRising €  talk   contribs

19:46, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

OK, another try: I now have this in my Preferences:

Giving: http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120612094918/paradiseislandhd/images/6/67/Dollars_small.pngDarkMoonRising  €   talk   contribs  | 08:38:11, June 22, 2012. So final thing - how to make it Globa?

Hmmm