How To Use The Site

This web site uses the SiteWriter web authoring system, which means anyone can contribute to the site. Including you!

• To edit any page click on the Edit this page link at the left of the page. You should do that right now, and read the raw text of this page. It will make more sense.

Changing how things look

• You get italics by surrounding words with two single quotes on either side like this.
• You get bold text by using two underscores on either side.
• And, bold italics by using both.
• You get bullets by using an asterisk * at the start of the line
• To have plain monospaced font, start the line with a space:

• You can separate paragraphs with an extra blank line. Example:

I am a paragraph.

I am a paragraph too. We're just very small paragraphs.

• You can get horizontal rules with four or more dashes like this:

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• To create hyperlinks you just capitalize the words and string them together. Let's say you want to create a page about how Steve Wainstead eats worms. All you have to do is capitalize each word and string them together like this: ??Steve Wainstead Eats Worms. If the page does not exist yet a question mark appears after the link, inviting you to create the page: ??This Page Should Not Exist. (And please don't ruin the example by creating one.) A page link like this is called a Wiki Word.

• To link to pages outside the Wiki, you can just type in the URL and Wiki will link it for you: http://www.nytimes.com/

• To put images in, just provide the hyperlink in brackets like this: [http://www.yourhost.yourdomain/images/picture.png]. Image URLs not in brackets will just appear as hyperlinks to the image.

• Now you are ready to begin Adding Pages.

This site is meant to be fast and easy to edit. It has very simple markup that you can read about in Text Formatting Rules.

If you don't like the size of the text editing window you get, you can change it. See User Preferences.

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See also: Help