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How to Use Page Layouts to Design your Help Wiki Page.
 
How to Use Page Layouts to Design your Help Wiki Page.
 
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===Page Layouts Using Templates===
 
*Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.  
 
*Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.  
*However once the page is in a template format you cannot use the visual editor, because the visual editor only works with pages in HTML
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*If you want to convert your page from template format to HTML input "subst:" right before the start of the template
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*'''How to set up a template'''  
 
*'''How to set up a template'''  
 
**All templates must open and close with curly brackets  
 
**All templates must open and close with curly brackets  
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**Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs  
 
**Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs  
 
***'''Example:''' [[File:Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 4.48.46 PM.png]]
 
***'''Example:''' [[File:Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 4.48.46 PM.png]]
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====Downside to using Templates====
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Pages using layout template cannot be edited via visual editor
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* To enable Visual Editor editing, you'll want to convert your page from template format to HTML
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* input "subst:" right before the start of the template and save the page. The template syntax will be replaced by the html layout tags
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===Page Layouts Using HTML Layouts===
 
*Use of HTML to build the page allows the user to utilize the visual editor when editing a page  
 
*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.  
 
*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.  
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*The HTML pages in the Page layout category list common HTML formats for pages to copy and paste.  
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[[Category:Page Layouts]]
 
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Revision as of 15:21, 12 May 2017

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

Page Layouts Using Templates

  • Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.
  • How to set up a template
    • All templates must open and close with curly brackets
      • Example: Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 4.56.13 PM.png
    • Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs
      • Example: Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 4.48.46 PM.png

Downside to using Templates

Pages using layout template cannot be edited via visual editor

  • To enable Visual Editor editing, you'll want to convert your page from template format to HTML
  • input "subst:" right before the start of the template and save the page. The template syntax will be replaced by the html layout tags

Page Layouts Using HTML Layouts

  • 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 category list common HTML formats for pages to copy and paste.