July 2007
Beginner
336 pages
7h 27m
English
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Chapter 6. Creating Content for Your Wiki
Putting on wiki makeup with wiki markup
</objective> <objective>Reviewing the basics of wiki markup
</objective> <objective>Applying HTML to your wiki pages
</objective> <objective>Sorting out the different modes for wiki pages
</objective> </feature>The “secret sauce” of wikis is that they are simple and easy. When it comes to making content look pleasing and readable, though, don’t get fooled into thinking that there is nothing much to wikis. The various ways how you can control the appearance of content on wiki pages might not give you the unlimited power of a program like Adobe Photoshop, but one look at Wikipedia or another advanced wiki shows that the pages can look attractive and nicely designed.
This chapter shows you how to make your wiki pages shine with clarity. The early sections build on the quick start provided in Chapter 2, showing you the tools that wikis provide for organizing content with headings, bullets, and tables. We show you how to add images to pages and also compare how to edit pages with wiki markup and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors. And don’t miss the tricks for using HTML (HyperText Markup Language) tables to give your wiki pages more complicated layouts.
How most wiki pages are designed and organized falls into one of three patterns, or modes:
✓ | Document mode: Pages might look like word processing documents. |
✓ | Thread mode: Pages can have comments added ... |
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