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Guide to Making Guides

Making guides on a Wiki is very easy, with the help of the editing bar you can make a decent looking guide in a few simple steps.

First, if you do not see a link to the guide page that you want, there is a simple way to create it. In the section that you want to put the main link in, this one for example, type the following:

[[Name of Guide]]

Which translates into: Name of Guide , which has now become a clickable link

The brackets tell the server that the text is a link, and it creates the link for you. If it is a brand new link, the link will take you directly to an edit page.

If you want to make headers to break up sections of your guide, highlight the text you want to use and click the big A on the editing menu. It will look like this afterward:

== Sample Header ==

This translates into the following when published:

Sample Header

That's it for this section, try to use the headers very sparingly!

Lists

Lists are another simple thing that you can add easily into your guide.

*Simple lists are just that,
**Indenting lists is simple too!
** start every line
* with a star
** more stars mean
*** deeper levels

This will display as:

• Simple lists are just that,
  • Indenting lists is simple too!
  • start every line
• with a star
  • more stars mean
    • deeper levels

Numbered Lists:

#Numbered lists
##Are easy too.
##Same Basic Concept
#Different end result.

This will display as:

1. Numbered lists
   1. Are easy too.
   2. Same Basic Concept
2. Different end result.

For more list examples, go here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List

Tables

Tables are easy too, they may be a bit more complicated than lists, but they look great!

{| {| style="background:#3D2B1F" border="1"  <-- color of table and size of border, keep the color consistent please
|+ This is the table title
! left side box 1
| right side box 1
|-  <--this denotes the end of a line
! left box 2
|right box 2
|additional box on same line   <-- Just add "|" to add more horizontal cells
|-
! box3 left
|box 3 center
|box 3 second center
|box 3 right
|-
|}

The above code displays like this:

This is the table title

left side box 1	right side box 1
left box 2	right box 2	additional box on same line
box3 left	box 3 center	box 3 second center	box 3 right

This is all that you really need to help contribute to the Wiki, for advanced editing tips and guides, click the link below:

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