Wiki+Basics

=Wiki Basics=

How to Work on a Page

 * Click on the **Edit This Page** button at the top of the page
 * Add text, pictures, videos, files, links to webpages and media.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.
 * Click Save

How To Add Text:

 * Click and type where you want the text to appear.
 * Use the formatting buttons on the toolbar.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving

How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files

 * Click the image icon which looks like a tree in a box [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/image.gif caption="external image image.gif"]]
 * Use the 'Upload New File' or 'External Image URL' dialog to select the image or file you wish to put on your page
 * Put the cursor at the position on the page where you wish to put the image or file
 * Double click the image or file to put it on the page
 * You can also add pictures by copying and pasting off of the Internet into the page.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.

**How to Link Words to A Web Page**

 * Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
 * Click on the Add Link icon [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/hyperlink.gif caption="external image hyperlink.gif"]] in the toolbar to add a new link.
 * Click on External Link and type or paste the web URL

How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page

 * Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
 * Click on the Add Link icon [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/hyperlink.gif caption="external image hyperlink.gif"]]in the toolbar to add a new link.
 * To link to an existing page, pull down and select the page name you would like to link to.
 * To create a new page, either keep the name of the word you highlighted or write a new page name.

**How to Link to A Place on a Page (Anchor)**

 * Find the place where you would like the anchor.
 * Type in this code:
 * Replace the word anchor with a name for the anchor.
 * Click Save.
 * Create your link and type in the name of the anchor.

How to Embed Media (such as YouTube videos)

 * When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/embed.gif caption="external image embed.gif"]].
 * Click it, and paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.

How to Undo

 * You can't actually Undo something you just did like in a word processor, but you can revert back to the page before you saved it.
 * Click on 'history' on top of the page you want to revert
 * Select the version you would like to go back to, by clicking on the revision in the date column
 * Click 'revert to this version' at the top of the page
 * 

Using the Floating Toolbar

 * The floating toolbar is helpful when the wiki page is longer than the computer screen.
 * Click on the Floating Toolbar [[image:http://nutmeg2008.wikispaces.com/i/float_toolbar.gif width="56" height="20" caption="external image float_toolbar.gif" link="nutmeg2008:help#"]]and it will move with you as you scroll down the page.