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toc =Wiki editing help=

Adding a new page
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Wiki links
Where to start with wikis and blogs

Getting tricky with wikis

Content box
Creating a content box involves some html coding. include page="html_greybox_open" 

This is a heading

This is where everything else goes

You need to put this code into the "other html" in the widget box. Things you can change or add: >> Here's a good page with colour codes -> [] include page="html_div_close"
 * background colour (the #eeeeee)
 * border width (the 1px)
 * border colour (the #cccccc)
 * bullet points -> this is a bullet point
 * links -> the name of the link

Easy content boxes
This is an easy way to set up content boxes without having to type the code in all the time.

You have to set up some special pages in order to do this. Take a look at HTML_greenbox_open and HTML_div_close. These pages don't have a lot on them (one looks blank) but I'm going to use these pages to create a green content box.

I'm going to use a special code inside the double square brackets called "include". The syntax goes like this:


 * inside the first set of square brackets I'm going to write **include page="HTML_greenbox_open"**
 * then I'm going to write everything I want to be inside the box
 * then inside the second set of square brackets I'm going to write **include page="HTML_div_close"

include page="HTML_greenbox_open" This is what you will then get!

include page="HTML_div_close"

To create the greenbox page I inserted some special code in the embed widget:

 document.write('')

To create boxes of other colours all I need to change is the two hex codes (#0e5818 and #aeefb7) - the first is the border colour and the second is the background colour of the box.

include page="html_redbox_open" For instance to create this box I substituted the colour hex codes #cc1100 & #ffc1c1 and created a new page "HTML_redbox_open".

include page="html_div_close"


 * The div close box stays the same so the only thing you change is the colour page.**

include page="html_yellowbox_open" And this is written in a yellow box (#ffd700 & #eee8aa).

include page="html_div_close"

Page includes from another wiki
Another cool feature of includes is that you can use them elsewhere. For instance I have a class wiki and if I want to use a coloured box that I have already set up in this wiki I can use it.

include page="html_greybox_open"
 * Inside the square brackets I would write this:

include page="dragonsinger:html_greybox_open"


 * and then write the content and finish with another set of square brackets with:

include page="dragonsinger:html_div_close"


 * Feel free to try it out using one of my coloured boxes:

include page="html_redbox_open" dragonsinger:html_redbox_open include page="html_div_close"

include page="html_yellowbox_open" dragonsinger:html_yellowbox_open include page="html_div_close"

include page="html_greenbox_open" dragonsinger:html_greenbox_open include page="html_div_close"

include page="html_greybox_open" dragonsinger:html_greybox_open include page="html_div_close"


 * You will need to make sure you also use the close code too:

dragonsinger:html_div_close include page="html_div_close"

Other page includes
I also use page includes for:

include page="2009room10rbs:blankbox_open" a page footer include page="page.footer" include page="html_div_close"

include page="html_greenbox_open" include page="2009room10rbs:mathsinfo" include page="html_div_close"
 * to remind my students daily how to set their books out
 * in this case the include page has the box includes as part of the page

Examples of wiki use in education
media type="custom" key="4304123" include page="page.footer"
 * Thanks to Suzie Vesper for this**