Wiki Tricks
Knowledge
is power. Post the stuff you know about how to use the wiki here. Want
to experiment with your wiki posting skills, you can play in the SandBox?.
How to Create a Free Log-In Account to WikiFish:
Logging
in is great: it allows you to upload images (see how to below), get
page change notifications emailed to you every time a page changes
that you are interested in (you can turn individual pages on and off),
and allows you to sign your posts with authority (no one can masquerade
as you) by entering
1) In the main menu, where it says "don't have an account?" click on "Start One"
2)
Enter your first and last name, along with a good email address and a
password that is at least 6 characters - it will not work without
all the fields filled in.
3) You may leave the account type as "free." Free accounts have 50mb of space. If you want more you have to pay for it.
4)
Whenever you want to log in, simply click on the "Account" link and
enter your email address along with your password. You may have the
computer "remember me" if you like, so that you do not have to log in
each time. This simply downloads a cookie to your personal space (it
follows you in your roaming account if you are using a desktop at
school). You may still post anonymously while logged in if you like by
simply clicking the "post anonymously" button in the edit window.
Adding Images:
This just got a whole lot easier, but you have to be a logged-in account holder (see how to become one above).
01) Log in.
02)
Now when you edit a page using the Active Edit editor, you will see a
new "Insert Image" button in the menu bar that looks like: 
03) Insert you cursor in the page where you would like to insert an image, and click the "Insert Image" button.
04) The Insert Image dialog window pops up. Click on "New Image."
05) select "Browse..." and find the image that you would like to upload.
06)
Click "Upload." the image is uploaded to the WikiFish server. You
will now see it in the list to the right. This list shows all the
images that you have uploaded.
07) Select the image that you want to insert in the page from the list of available images.
08) Set the Border style, roll over text, and alignment that you desire, if any.
09) Select "Insert."
10) that's it. the Image should appear in the page.
Every
free account holder has 50mb of image/file space. In the event that you
fill your allotted space and want to delete some images to make room
for more, simply go to the Manage Your Images page and select the
ones that you no longer need for deletion.
Note:
To
include images in a page without being a logged-in user requires
entering into the world of HTML, and you have to have the image already
in existence on the web somewhere else - IT CANNOT SIMPLY EXIST ON YOUR
HARD DRIVE! If you need help uploading images to the web, check out the
Dream Weaver pages.
1) Enter edit mode.
2) Click on the "HTML" tab at the bottom of the edit window. You should see all of the HTML code for the page.
3) Find the location in the code for where you would like to insert your picture.
4) You will add an "Image Source" tag to the html code. This tells the page where to look for the image on the web. Simply type
<IMG src="the/path/to _your_image">
where "the/path/to _your_image" is the, well, path to your image. be sure to use the complete path, including the http:// part.
5)
Click on the "Normal" tab at the bottom of the edit window, and you
should see your image in its place. If it is not where you want it, you
may now cut and paste it into position where you want it.
Adding External Links:
1) In edit mode, add the word or words that you would like to use as your link to the page outside of WikiFish.
2) Using the cursor, highlight the word or words.
3) Click on the button in the edit window that looks like this: 
An "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box pops up.
4) In the "HREF" section, type the web address you would like to use. Remember to include the "http://" part at the beginning.
5)
In the "TARGET" section, type "_blank" (remember the "_"). This This
will cause the page to open in a new window, leaving the wiki site in
the background - This allows the user to get back where they started
fast.
6) Click "insert link." You're done. If you need to delete the
link our change it in any way, simply highlight the link (while in edit
mode) and click the same button again, this time you get a similar
window, but it allows you to "update hyperlink."
Spell Checking:
Oh,
we are some terrible spellers here at WikiFish. Unfortunately, there
is no spell check. If you want to spell check something, you need to do
it in a text editor like Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, if you simply
copy and paste text directly from word, you get this funny "?
function(w) { return w.toLowerCase() }" at every line break in the
document. There are two easy ways to get rid of it.
1) do all your editing in word, copy and paste it into notepad, and then copy/paste it from notepad into WikiFish.
2)
Instead of pasting it from word into the "Normal" view of the edit
window, instead paste into the "HTML" view of the edit window. You will
have to go back and add your line breaks and other formatting, but that
is the easy part.
Here are some more spell checking options for wikifish. Could someone review them and tell us what you think, good or bad.
Adding Horizontal Rules:
There
are two ways that you may add a horizontal rule: if you are using the
FCKeditor, insert the cursor in the text where you want the horizontal
rule and click the horizontal rule button (its the one right next to
the insert image button). If you are using any other editor you
may simply click on the HTML tab in the editor window, find the
location in you post you would like the horizontal rule, and enter
Thats it.
Adding a mail link to my email address
Simply type in your email address in the edit window, and WikiFish will do the rest.
Adding Flash or Javascript: How do I do it?
You
can't, thank goodness. The reason? you only have access to the "body"
portion of the html code for each page - this insures that no page can
become completely wrecked inadvertently. Besides, WikiFish is
about content and dialogue, not flashy cleverness.
However, if you did want to suggest a piece of javascript (or flash) that
could also be valuable to other users, you could
error in _link.cfm:Variable COMMANDARGUMENT does not exist.:Error at line 1, column 9 to the wiki engine developers and they might be able to encapsulate it
in such a way that you could still get your functionaility without
wrecking anything.
Having trouble restoring old versions of pages?
The
Wiki uses cookies to enable the versions list, so It is probably a
problem with the privacy settings of your browser. To fix it, click on
"tools" in the menu of Internet Explorer, go to "internet options,"
Click on the "privacy " tab, and set the slider to "low."
Advanced Stuff:
You may insert a Widget into your page to enable some of the advanced features of the wiki.
new questions:
02.17.05
When
you are logged in, and you left-click on your name the menu expands to
display several more options. Are these options actually usable and if
so can you select targets for objects such as home? Also can anyone explain to me how the favorites work? Thanks chuck berry
How
do I do html? I know it is a broad question, but I would at least
like to be able to create my own web page, is it possible for someone to
point me in the right direction? Jerry Lewis Sit
down at just about any computer in the school, launch Dream Weaver,
look at the help and tutorial files, and go to town. It's how I
learned. If you can wait a little longer, we may do some in class at
the end of the semester, but definitely next. Oh, and also, for
Auburn-Specific information, check out the Dream Weaver site her on
the wiki, as well as the general how-to site at Auburn OIT. Rusty Smith