Sample Page with Instructions

Sample Page - With Instructions

Step 1 - Open the Wiki

Step 2 - Click on Contribute - it's a very small button in the upper right-hand corner.

Step 3 - A dialog box will open asking you to name the page you are creating.

Step 4 - Choose a format - my Elspeth of Harilow page was created using the blank page format, this sample is being created using the Standard Page format - will let you know what differences, if any, I find between the two.

Step 5 - Your page comes up in Edit Mode - this is where you type your info, or Copy/Paste it fro Word OneNote, etc. When you are finished adding your info, you click the Publish button on the right-hand side - green - can't miss it!

Step 6 - to edit, change, or add to your page, you open the Wiki, open your page as if you were going to read it, and click the Edit button. Not sure if we can edit each other's pages on this Wiki - that seems like it would be rude, so let's agree to not do it!

OK - in Standard format, there are preset placeholders for pictures, videos, and section headings - not sure if they show once I publish the page, so let's find out!

Yep - they stay there - scroll past the features, please.

Section heading
Write the first section of your page here.

Section heading
Write the second section of your page here.

OK - first big note - you need to ALWAYS click Publish before you navigate away from the Edit mode, even if you aren't finished - otherwise your work goes away! I was trying to save a screenshot of the icons at the top of this Edit page, and in saving my image, lost all of my notes on editing! Grr!

OK - so, this format has places already in your text to put in pictures and videos. In blank page format, I had to add them myself where I wanted them. I used the third icon from the left, above, to put in pictures - place the cursor where you want the picture to be, click the icon, and browse your computer to select a picture. It will only show the file name in edit mode - but when you publish, your actual image should appear on your page.



So, I added a picture of my kids - here in edit, what I see is

((File:Johnathan,_Jennifer,_Leo.jpg/left))

but when I publish it, the picture will come up.

Obviously, you might need to adjust where the picture comes in your text - there's one picture in my Elspeth page that is badly positioned - I will let you know if I figure out a way to fix that!

You can also put pictures in where the format has the placeholders for them - at the top of this page format when I open it in Edit there's a ((File:Placeholder/video/right.300px)) and a ((File:Picture.right.300px)) that, I would guess, I would backspace over them and put in my own file names - might try one of those later.

Another note - when I published this, I found that the lines were all run together, even though I had hit Enter after every line - you have to double-space the Enter in order to actually drop down to the next line in Publish mode - it makes your Edit copy look really spaced out, but it Publishes the way you want to see it. Hope that makes sense!

One of the things I really like about this is that I can edit, publish, reread, go back to edit - it's a very up-to-the minute process!

Hope this helps!