Helpful+Hints+for+MAking+a+Wiki

The most common thing that you will have to do on your own wiki is insert an image file. To do this you follow these steps. 1. Find the image that you want and save it to your hard drive as a .jpeg, .tiff, .giff, .bmp or any other standard image file. 1a. Make sure you copy or write down the address of where you got the picture from. Unless you use a picture that you drew you have to report where you got the picture from. 2. On your own wiki page click the "Edit this Page" button. 3. In the blue bubble you should see a little picture of a tree. Click this icon. 4. A menu pops up. There is a place that asks if you want to upload a file. 5. Click on browse, and find the file where ever you saved it on your hard drive. 6. Once you find the file you want highlight it and then click ok. 7. Click upload and wait a few seconds. The time it takes to upload your file depends on the image size and your upload connection speed. 8. Once the image has uploaded you should see a thumbnail (small picture) of the image in that box. 9. Put the curser on the screen where you want the picture to go, and then double click on the thumbnail. 10. Click on the save button and check out the picture you just uploaded to your wiki! 11. Click "Edit this Page" again, and type "This picture from" and then type in the web address of where the link came from. If the address you wrote down does not include a "http://" then you will want to create a link to their external website. 12. To make a link to an external website please follow the "create a link to an external website" instructions.

Some people have already started putting external links into their presentations. To do this you follow these steps: 1. Copy the URL of the site that you want to link to (it's control C on a PC, or you can right click and select copy). 1. Write the text that you want to use as the hyper-link text. 2. Highlight that text with your mouse. 3. Click on the earth and chain link button in the blue bubble at the top of the screen (just like what you did to get your project started. 4. When the window pops up click in the circle next to external link. 5. Paste the URL info that you had copied earlier into the window next to "external link." 6. Hit ok. 7. You should probably hit save now and check out if your link worked.

How to draw a line across the page. 1. Click "Edit this Page" 2. Line up your curser where you want the line to be 3. In the blue box next to the bullet icon is a line icon. Click that. Get a line.