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Humanities 6 -life from a slightly skewed perspective
Wiki Hints
A. Add a Comment Section: This is the easiest of the lot! All you have to do is go to into your edit section, find the place where you want people to be able to add a comment, and then just type a plus sign. Yes, that is right, just a +. Then, when you refresh, it will be there! B. Color Coding! Aside from the hints found on the hints page on the wiki, I just wanted to give you a little translation of how to read what to do. <span style="color:#ff66ff">This color is FF66FF</span> to get This color is FF66FF. 1. First of all...you have to use the cut and paste method when you are typing. You have to copy this all this bit at the very start of what words you want to be a color <span style="color:#ff66ff"> The #ff66ff part is the code for the color pink. You can get the code for the color you like by going to this site on Webmonkey. Be sure that you do copy the # well. Code doesn't work even if the smallest bit is left out. 2 The text you want to color is in the middle between the > <. In the example, it is the words "This color is FF66FF" 3. The last thing you have to be sure is to close off the order. It is like a story. It has to have a beginning, middle and end part to work. Here you have to have </span> . Now you are all set to add color to your text! C. Uploading Pictures! Alright! Pictures! The trick is not to have HUGE pictures. Generally, in web sites you want each picture to be around 640x480 pixels in size. So, what is a pixel? A pixel (short for picture element, using the common abbreviation "pix" for "picture") is a single point in a graphic image. (Wikipedia) Have too many and it clogs up your loading and too little and your picture is cruddy. In class, I will show you how to change the size on Microsoft Office Picture Manager or you can ask your parents to help you at home if you have another type of computer. You should save the picture you want to a special folder on your computer. If it is a picture you took, no worries about having a citation. If it is a picture you copied YOU MUST cite it. Then, go to the upload button on the top of the wiki. There you will see something like this.
Click the Browse button and click down until you reach the picture you want. Click that. The name should appear in the box. Then, you have to click upload. This give the order for the picture to be attached. When it is uploaded it will appear in the menu box at the bottom of the page. That way you know it has been added. Too, when you go back to your main page, you should see a note there that it has been attached as well. Be sure to save! It will not keep if you have not! D. Getting a Background into My Page! After I looked at the background site, and found the background that I wanted, I saved it to my folder that I made on my computer. Then, going to the Upload section at the top of my wiki page, I uploaded the image that I wanted to use. After I uploaded it, I could get the name of the file from the Upload part on the bottom of the page. The name in the box of my uploaded picture was background_042.gif Then, I went to edit. There, I cut and pasted to the top of my page, all of the bits below. I knew that I would have to make some changes but this is the basic form that I have to have. <html><style type="text/css"> To find out what page number I had to get I looked at the URL address on the top of the site. It told me the page. For instance, my wiki URL said, http://aniweb.graded.br:8888/History6/3. If you look at the big three at the end, this stands for the page. So…now I can add both my page number and my gif site. <html><style type="text/css"> td.banner, td.main {background-color:transparent;} body {background: url('uploads/3/background_042.gif') fixed} </style></html> E. What About Them Links? If you want to link to a special web site you like, here is what you do! First of all, remember you have to cite, cite, cite! Never put something up without giving credit to those folks. It is just not fair! First, copy the full URL of the site that you like, by highlighting and pasting. Then, in the edit part of your wiki, at the place where you want to stick the link, put in a *. This is located above the 8 on your keyboard. Then, paste in the URL. Finish off with another *. There you have it. It helps to have a really short description of what the site is about to let the viewer know what is on your mind with it. |
