The_Quarter_Wiki:QuickStartGuide

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Start Guide for editing Your Pages

Please read this section before editing your pages to avoid hazards and bunkers.

First thing before editing your pages

First off, you will find the following code when you try to edit your page.

Do not erase this line:

<!----------------Security Code-----Do not change!-------->
{{#security:edit|Max,UserName}}
<!----------------Security Code-----Do not change!-------->

This is for protecting against anonymous edits.

Do not erase this line:

<!----------------RSS Feed Code-----Do not change!-------->
<div style="border:none;text-align:right;">
<span class="plainlinks">
[http://quarterwiki.com/Business&action=feed&feed=rss http://quarterwiki.com/rss.png] [http://quarterwiki.com/Business&action=feed&feed=rss RSS Feed for Page Business]     </span>
</div>
<!----------------RSS Feed Code-----Do not change!-------->

This is RSS Feed for your page. You can move it around if you'd like. OR, if you don't want your page to be gobbled up by search engines, you could remove it. But we suggest you keep it.

There's a <startFeed /> and <endFeed /> at the top and bottom of your code. This is to specify which parts of the page you want to be added to your RSS Feed. Best probably to leave where they are...

Do erase these lines and put your content instead:

<!----------------Default What Is This Page-------->
{{:The_Quarter_Wiki:What-Is-This}}
<!----------------Default What Is This Page-------->

This is advertisement page for the Quarter Wiki until you get your page setup with content. Without this, your page will look very crappy to a random visitor. With it, at least we can use it as another advertisement page until you have content.

<!----------------Tags-----Feel free to change or add more tags!-------->
==Technorati Tags==
<tag>money</tag>
<tag>business</tag>
<tag>advertising</tag>
<tag>quarterwiki</tag><tag>quarter</tag>
<tag>wiki</tag>
<tag>web2.0</tag>
<tag>sales</tag>
<tag>paid wiki</tag>
<tag>paid</tag>
<tag>wiki</tag>
<tag>quarter wiki</tag>
<!----------------Tags-----Feel free to change or add more tags!-------->

There's also Technorati tags which you can leave alone as they don't show up on your page but they are great for SEO.

How do I embed another website or webpage to my page?

You can easily embed another website using the websiteFrame tag:

You can play with the height, width, border, and scroll variables.

<websiteFrame>
website=http://google.com
height=200
width=735
border=1
scroll=no
</websiteFrame>

You can make the width larger than 735 if you your webpage width is bigger. Try something like 1024.

Check out the results:

How do I embed a MetaCafe video?

Here's how you can embed a MetaCafe video:

First, get the embed code:

<embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br><font size = 1><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball/">HOWTO Practice With 1 Golf Ball</a> - <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">The most popular videos are here</a></font>

Get this section: http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball.swf

then paste it something like this:

<websiteFrame>
website=http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball.swf
height=510
width=670
border=0
scroll=no
</websiteFrame>

You will end up with this:

How do I embed a Youtube video?

Here's how you can Embed a Youtube video:

First, get the embed code:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Get this section: http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4

then paste it something like this:

<websiteFrame>
website=http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4
height=510
width=670
border=0
scroll=no
</websiteFrame>

You will end up with this:

How do I add images to my page?

You can use the following syntax or press on the image button:

[[Image:MyPicture.jpg]]

The image button looks like this:

Save the page then when you go back to your page, you will be able to click on your image link and upload a new image file. Make sure the file extension matches your actual image.

e.g.

[[Image:MyPicture.jpg]] for jpeg

[[Image:MyPicture.gif]] for gif

[[Image:MyPicture.png]] for png

More advanced image methods

How do I embed an image from another website?

Linking your external image to a page on OBW

Let's say you want to load the Logo image from Zedomax.com and Link it to the Hacks page:

The code:

{{clickpic | Hacks | http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg}}

The result:

Linking your external image to a URL on OBW

Here's an example that links Logo image from Zedomax.com to URL http://Zedomax.com:

The code:

[http://zedomax.com http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg]

The result:

How do I get rid of the arrow?

You can put the following code around your image:

<span class="plainlinks">[http://zedomax.com http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg]</span>

The result:

How do I resize the size of my images?

Let's say you want to re-size the image to 50 by 50 pixels.

You can do:

[[Image:MyPicture.jpg| 50x50px]]

Here's what you'd get after you uploaded the picture:

Check out WikipediaExtened Image syntax for more advanced methods.

How do I put multiple images in a row?

You can use tables to separate the columns like this

Code:

{| width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="vertical-align:top; background: #f7f7f7; text-align:center;"
|-
|<span class="plainlinks">[http://zedomax.com http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg]</span>
|<span class="plainlinks">[http://zedomax.com http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg]</span>
|<span class="plainlinks">[http://zedomax.com http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg]</span>
|-
|}

The result:

How do I add tables to my page?

Here's a simple table you can make:

Code:

{|
|+ The table's caption
! Column heading 1 !! Column heading 2 !! Column heading 3
|-
! Row heading 1
| Cell 2 || Cell 3
|-
! Row heading A
|Cell B
|Cell C
|}

The result:

The table's caption
Column heading 1	Column heading 2	Column heading 3
Row heading 1	Cell 2	Cell 3
Row heading A	Cell B	Cell C

For more info, refer to the Advanced Guide here.

I own multiple pages, how do I link them?

You can link from one page to another simply using 2 brackets like this:

[[Business]]

Here's the result:

Business

If you want another phrase but linked to the same page do this:

[[Business|Cool Business Page]]

Here's the result:

Cool Business Page

Using this method, you can inter-link all your pages and increase the SEO value of your pages.

How do I make new Table of Contents?

You can start by adding == characters to the sides of your titles.

You can also do deeper contents simply by adding a =.

Once you have 2 or more levels, the Table of Contents is generated automatically at the top of your page.

Here's an example so you get it:

==My Table==

blah blah blah

===Red Table===

blah blah blah

====Red Legs====

blah blah blah

===Blue Table===

blah blah blah

====Blue Legs====

blah blah blah

==My Desk==

blah blah blah

Try copying and pasting the above into your page(s) and play around with it.

How do I add Google ads?

Let's say you have this code from Google AdSense:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-3379402347635671";
//728x90, created 12/2/07
google_ad_slot = "6488952503";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

Replace <script type="text/javascript"> with <myscript>.
Replace </script> with </myscript>.
Replace <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> with <myscript src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></myscript>.

You should get something like this after the conversion:

<myscript><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-3379402347635671";
//728x90, created 12/2/07
google_ad_slot = "6488952503";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//--></myscript>
<myscript src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</myscript>

Here's what it looks like:

You can use similar method to do many other ads such as Bidvertiser, widgets, and more!

How do I add my pages to categories?

Here's how you can add your page(s) to as many categories as you want. You can even add new categories if one doesn't exist for you.

What does this for your pages?

Basically, you will get indexed 10 times better by search engines since now search engines have categories to relate to. The more categories you relate to, the better you will show up for your keywords.

The more categories you have, the better. Having a category is having a page linked to your page. Since the Google PageRank ranks you based on how many links you have coming into your page, the more categories you have, the more chance you will get that high PageRank and rank higher on search engines.

You can even have 300 categories if you want and that'd really boost your PageRank.

How do I add Google Maps to my page?

So, do you want to utilize the GoogleMaps technology into your Wiki page? Well, we've done all the dirty work for you so you can simply point, click, and click.

Here's an example of adding the home of QuarterWiki to our About Us Page.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

It should be pretty self-explanatory. Remember, you can add multiple locations. You could add a 1000 locations if you wanted too.

How do I RSS Feeds to my page?

If you have a blog or website with RSS Feed, you can easily bring up your posts on your page.

How to add only the title names of your RSS Feed

Here's the code for grabbing the latest 5 posts from http://zedomax.com.

<rss>http://zedomax.com/blog/feed/ |charset=UTF-8|short|max=5</rss>

Result:

zedomax.com

How to add only the title and brief descriptions of your RSS Feed

Here's the code for grabbing the latest 5 posts with brief description from http://zedomax.com.

<rss>http://zedomax.com/blog/feed/ |charset=UTF-8|max=5</rss>

Result:

zedomax.com

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Parameters

max: You can set the number of feeds to grab. If you set this to 50, you will get 50 latest posts.

short: Adding this parameter will only show the titles of your feed.

How do I create RSS Feeds from my page?

If you want to make a RSS Feed out of your content on your page and ping it all over the blosphere and the interenet, here's how you do it:

<startFeed />

==Title 1==
This is a sample sentence....

==Title 2==
This is a sample sentence....

==Title 3==
This is a sample sentence....

<endFeed />

After that, an RSS button will be create at the bottom of your page. OR you can even just add "&action=feed&feed=rss" on your URL or "&action=feed&feed=atom" for Atom Feeds.

For example, if your page is "http://QuarterWiki.com/Business", then your RSS Feeds address will be "http://QuarterWiki.com/Business&action=feed&feed=rss".

OR, you can simply just use the RSS button at the bottom.

- WARNING: If you don't use any titles, your RSS Feed will not work.

How do I add thousands of automatic backlinks to my blog?

This is very simple. You simply mix the above 2 methods of adding and creating RSS Feeds.

This way, your Page is updated with your blog posts every time you write a new post. Plus, your Blog RSS Feeds are feeded to the Page's RSS Feed, meaning you will receive a ping back on Technorati and other blog search engines.

Here's an example:

<startFeed />

==Title 1==
<rss>http://zedomax.com/blog/feed/ |charset=UTF-8|max=5</rss>

==Title 2==
This is a sample sentence....

==Title 3==
This is a sample sentence....

<endFeed />

Advanced Backlinking

If you've done the above, you can always add your RSS feed to Feedburner and make it ping automatically to the blogsphere for you. Simply sign up for an account if you don't have one yet, feed your RSS Feed to it. The most important part comes after you feed it, make sure to go to Publicize->Ping Shot and choose "Google Blog Search", "Ping-O-Matic", and 5 blog search engines of your choice.

Advanced Backlinking 2

If you got this far, you can add this piece of code to top of your page:

<div style="border:none;text-align:right;">
<span class="plainlinks">[http://feeds.feedburner.com/Onebuckwiki-Onebuckwikifeatured http://onebuckwiki.com/onedollar/rss.png] 
[http://feeds.feedburner.com/Onebuckwiki-Onebuckwikifeatured RSS Feed for November]     
</span>
</div>

You gotta replace all "http://feeds.feedburner.com/Onebuckwiki-Onebuckwikifeatured" text with your Feedburner Feed link.

and get this:

RSS Feed for November

How do I add Technorati Tags to my page?

You can add Technorati tags to your pages for better SEO.

These tags are invisible to the readers, only visible to Technorati or other search engines.

Here's an example of adding tags to this page:

<tag>start guide</tag>
<tag>quarterwiki</tag>
<tag>wiki</tag>
<tag>web2.0</tag>
<tag>howto</tag>
<tag>guide</tag>
<tag>business</tag>

How do I promote my pages and bring more traffic?

First off, you can submit your pages to Pwigg.com. It's a social networking site just for paid wikis that allows you to create hundreds of backlinks to your site. Sign up is easy and you can submit your pages and vote on them too.

Although we do a lot of advertising, search engine campaigns, and viral marketing to bring traffic to the site, you can help us and yourself by promoting your pages or anyone else's to social networking sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Propeller, Reddit, or any other social networking sites.

How do I transfer my pages to another user?

You can change the security code to change transfer of ownership to another user.

First, create a new account if you haven't for the new user.

Second, Edit the following line in your page:

{{#security:edit|Max,MyUserName}}

You can change it to:

 
{{#security:edit|Max,NewUser}}

OR you can even do this to allow the new user AND you to edit the page:

{{#security:edit|Max,MyUserName,NewUser}}

You can use this simple guideline to change ownership whenever you sell your pages.

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