Editing Pages

How do I edit pages?

(This follows on from the One Minute Tutorial)

Depending on the kind of security you've opted for, each page will have an 'Edit this page' link, either in the navigation, or in a special administrator-only toolbar. There's one on the left of this page.

Clicking 'Edit this page' displays the underneath text of the page in an editable box. You should do that right now, and read the raw text of this page. It will make more sense.

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What can I do?

There are various ways you can format the text to add links, make text bold, etc. ??Join Words Together Like This to create a link to a page with that title. If the page doesn't exist (yet), you'll see a 'pink' link with ?? in front of it. Click the link to create the page. It's that simple!

Leave a blank line between paragraphs.

• You get italics by surrounding words with two single quotes on either side like this.
• You get bold text by using two underscores (shift-hyphen) on either side.
• You get bullet lists by using an asterisk * at the start of the line
• Link to other web sites by pasting the 'http://...' from your browser between square brackets
• Insert photos the same way (links ending in gif, jpg or png are presumed to be pictures
• Use four dashes to create a horizontal line, useful for breaking pages into sections (see above 'What can I do?'.
• Use an exclamation at the beginning of a line to create a heading.
• Use a pair of semi-colons to break a line onto the next line.
• You can optionally add your own photos.

To find out how to create tables, numbered lists, footnotes and more, see the page on Text Formatting Rules.

There are some things you cannot do with SiteWriter that you could do with html. But in most cases you can work around it. SiteWriter emphasises content over appearance. This is one of the ways in which it ensures maximum accessibility across a wide range of browsing environments.

And you don't have to learn html.

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