How to Use HelpWiki Page Layouts

How to Use Page Layouts to Design your Help Wiki Page.

Page Layouts that Utilize Templates

• Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.
• However once the page is in template format you cannot use the visual editor, because the visual editor only works with pages in HTML
• If you want to convert your page from template format to HTML input "subst:" right before the start of the template
• How to set up a template
  • All templates must open and close with curly brackets
    • Example: [[[:Template:TemplateExample]]]
  • Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs
    • Example: [

Page Layouts that Remain in HTML

• Use of HTML to build the page allows the user to utilize the visual editor when editing a page
• If you do not know how to write HTML you can copy and paste HTML from other formatted pages to style your page.
• The HTML pages in the Page layout catagory list common HTML formats for pages to copy and paste.