Help:Editing basics
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Editing Basics
Interested in contributing useful and credible resources to the Small Business Library?
Here are some tips and guidelines to help you add high quality content.
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Editing
To edit a page on the Small Business Library, click on the “edit” tab at the top of the page. If there is no edit tab available, the page may currently be locked, or you may need to become a registered user and login to make changes.
Once you have opened up the edit tab adding text is simple, just insert text wherever you feel it is appropriate. Clicking the "show preview" button at the bottom of the pane will allow you to preview the article and check for errors before publishing to the wiki. Clicking the "save page" button at the bottom of the editing pane will save any changes made.
Formatting
Once you have added text, you can format it to add headers, as well as bold and italic text. The bar on the top of the editing pane contains shortcuts to frequently used lines of code that are used to format entries. Hold your cursor above an icon to find out what action each button has.
Here are a few of the items you can use to format text in an article:
- Use '''Put Bold Text Here''' to make the text bold.
- Use ''Put Italic Text Here'' to make the text italic.
- Use ==Put Header Here== to create a header.
- Use ===Put Sub-header Here=== to create a sub-header
- You can create a table of contents using the headers by inserting the text __TOC__ where you would like a table of contents to appear.
- Use * at the beginning of a line to create a bullet.
For more options visit Wikipedia’s editing cheatsheet.
Creating Links
To create a link to an existing page on Small Business Library, use [[Page_name]] to create a link like this: Main_Page or use [[Page_name|displayed text]] to create a link with different text.
To create a link to a page outside of Small Business Library use [http://URL displayed text] to create a link like this
Creating A New Page
To create a new page on Small Business Library, start by creating a link to that page from an existing page. You can do this by using either [[Page_name]] or [[Page_name|displayed text]] to create the link. Once the link is created it will appear red until content has been added to the new page. Clicking on the red link will take you to the new page, which will automatically open to the editing section. Once edits have been made the link will turn blue, and the page can be edited using the edit tab.
Uploading Files
You can upload files such as images using the "upload file" in the toolbax left hand navigation bar or by clicking here.
To include a file in a page, you can link using [[Image:file.jpg]], [[Image:file.jpg text]] or [[Media:file.extension]]
