Instructions for Adding Your Introduction to the Wiki

The wiki that was created for the workshop at Louisiana Tech resides on the "pbwiki" website.  This site provides FREE wiki hosting (Burks really likes that).  BTW - PB actually stands for "Peanut Butter" - since making a wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich:

Go to the wiki at http://louisianatech.pbwiki.com/ and click on the "Login" link in the upper right of the page:

This action will bring up a new page:

Enter the password (which is "oakley" without the quotes), and also enter your name and e-mail address.  Then click on the "Log in" button.

You then will go to the main page in the wiki (the "FrontPage").  Click on the "Edit page" button to edit this page in the wiki:

Clicking on the "Edit page" button will open the page for editing in a "WYSIWYG" editor (so if you can use a text editor, such as Microsoft Word, you should be able to use the PBWIKI editor):

At this point, the only thing you have to do is add a link to your NEW page in the wiki - that is, the new page where you will provide your introduction.  Adding a link to a new page also CREATES the new page in the wiki.  To add a new link, position the cursor on the exact part of the page where you want to add the link, and then click on the "Link" icon in the editing window:

This will bring up a dialogue box, where you can enter the name of the new page in the wiki.  Please name your page using the convention "Your Name", such as "Burks Oakley" (without the quotes):

When you click "OK", the new link will be added to the "FrontPage" of the wiki.  You may wish to edit the text style (font, color, size, etc.) at this point.  When you have finished your edits, click on the "Save" button in the lower part of the editing window.  When you save your changes, you will exit from the editor and view the page as it will appear in a browser.  [Note that everyone else in the workshop also will be editing this page, so save your changes quickly so that someone else can take over editing the page.]

Next, simply click on the NEW link that you just added, and you will view a new page that actually creates the new page:

Click on the "Create new page" button.  This action will open your NEW page in the WYSIWYG editor, and you then can add your introduction on that page.  Be creative!  Don't forget to "Save" your edits before exiting from the editor:

Note that you can re-visit the wiki at any time and make additional edits to your page.

Finally, note that you can create your own wiki for free at the pbwiki.com website.  Simply go to the site and enter the name of the wiki you wish to create:

Good luck!

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last updated 17 October 2007