Fancy+Tricks

toc These are ways to use the wiki. By that I mean edit marks, making new pages, and inserting files and widgets.

=Edits= First of all, the EASIEST way to edit is by using the tips on "help on how to format text," but this is an easier to understand version of that.

Headings
That ^ is a heading. Headings can also be used to make words **bold,** like you would when you want to make a word bold during discussion or another time when the toolbar is unavailable. These are examples of headings and how to make them. Because it''s impossible to do full examples with headings because whatever you write after a heading automatically goes to the next line (so I don't suggest simply using it to make words bold) So the basically the more = you put on each side of a word, the smaller it gets. = = = = =Example A= This is the largest size possible in headings. Simple put ONE = on each end of your text.

Example B
Put two = on each side of the text

Example C
This is the smallest heading size. Requires 3 = on each side of the text.

Overall, headings may be most useful if used to organize things especially in a list of information.

Underlining, italics, and bold
Simply do the following:

Underlining (put two underscores on each side)

Italics (put two slashes on each side)

Bold (Put two asterisks on each side)

(Put two curly braces on each side)

Tags
Tags include signatures.

Signatures are simple. There are two types. user:Emtay13 is simple signature made of three tildes also known as thes: ~ 1201775881 is a signature with the date and time, made up of four tildes also known as these: ~

Other Edits
These are other edits you can use. Tables: To make a table, first create you cells. To do this use two | as in the line made by shift + the slash button above "enter" In this example, youn would do the exact same thing only instead of using slashes,use lines. \\example\\ that is one column. it should look like this if you use lines instead: for multiple cells: \\example\\example\\ \\example\\example\\ should look (w/ lines) like this: Here is a finished t able: ||
 * example ||
 * example || example ||
 * example || example ||
 * AGAIN, two lines per side. (between each column/cell you need 2 lines)
 * Album || Release Year ||
 * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band || 1967 ||
 * Learning To Flinch || 1993 ||
 * The Black Parade || 2006 ||

Non customizable tables found when clicking "insert table" on the toolbar Random characters: Click "insert characters" Examples: ®, æ, ¼ =Links= This is how to make a basic link to a website: Website adress]] This is how to make a link to a page you made: For this example, the page you made is named "Book Log" For a basic link, either click on the globe button thing to insert link or do this Book Log]] You can put this on two places, on a normal page like "home," or on the navigation. To insert a link to this on navigation, click edit navigation and do what you would normally do to insert a page link. If you make a page but WANT TO LABEL IT, like we have done for the "archived book log" because we're done with it, do the following: [[label|page name]]

=Widgets= Widgets include video players, web toys (blingbob.com, pyzam.com) and other things such as customizable slideshows and counters. The only I think we'd use would be outside of our classroom wiki, but here are steps anyways: -If you found a video from (example) youtube and wanted to post it on a wikispace, you'd first copy the EXACT address to the page -Click on where you want to put it (a page) "insert widget" -Choose the video icon -Select youtube (if you got it from another source select that but if the site is not listed then click "other") -You should see a small box. PASTE the address in it. -Then upload that and the video will appear, completely playable -If you get a web toy, select the other icon and then insert the code because webtoys won't fall under any catagories.

Update: because of wikispaces' update, you can do extra things. For example, under widgets click wikispaces and it will insert a wikispaces widget which are, for example, things like tables of contents (there's one in the beginning of this) and the key is once you insert a table of contents, you do NOT have to do anything but make the words you want to include in the table of contents with any form of heading. (see headings) =Documents= To insert a photo or other document (Word, Excel, etc) select "Insert file" when you edit a page (the icon should be a flower). Then click browse and select the document you want to post. Once you find it, click "upload" and above the browse box should be a Word "W" or other symbol to represent the document. Doubler click on that and a link to it will appear on the page.

If you are doing a project (ex. the golf course thing) then you would take a picture and upload the pic to your computer. Then you click insert file and insert the picture as you would a normal doc. If you make it on another program, open it the same way. make sure you have it saved under documents though, not the desktop