Help:Editing

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So, you're new to the whole Wiki thing... Have I got news for you! So was I (Kykmi) before I started this website. I know HTML (oh yay... how exciting!) which is in my opinion a very good basis for coding in general. In any case, on this page I will teach you how to create your user page, wishlist, and add in a picture here and there. It's incredibly easy and only takes but a few moments of your time, which I realize, understand, and fully support it all going toward FFXI.

As a side note, this is not going to be a fancy guide; it will tell you how to do the most basic of tasks to get your page up and running.

The first thing you're probably asking yourself is "Where the hell is my member page?" A valid question indeed! Well it'd be easy for me to tell you to go find it yourself, but thats not the point of a guide, is it? After you log in, your name will be at the top of the page beside a little person; click on this to reach your blank member page! (Fig.1)

Figure.1

So you have this blank page presented in front of you. Theres a whole bunch of links at the top, and theres an evil monkey in your closet. Well, the last thing may not be true, but the rest is. Regardless of your evil monkey situation, locate the edit link (Fig.2) at the top, and click that link like its never been clicked before (because realistically, if you're reading this... it probably hasn't!)

Figure.2

Next is for the fun part. You should see a giant empty text box with absolutely NOTHING in it. More likely than not, you're going to want to fill this up with something pretty. The first thing we are going to do is place your glorious 'business card' template. Start by making a header but putting your character name, surrounded by two '='s. It should look like this:

==LOLCHARACTERNAME==
Inputting that will create something like this:

LOLCHARACTERNAME

As for the template itself, here it is!

{{UserProfile |playername=XXX |race=XXX |allegiance=XXX |job=XXX |craft=XXX |zilart=XXX |promathia=XXX |ahturhgan=XXX |other=XXX}}

playername - Your main Characters name
race - Race and gender
allegiance - San d'Oria/Windurst/Bastok and Rank
job - Jobs and Levels
craft - Crafts and Levels
zilart - Zilart Mission
promathia - CoP Mission
ahturhgan - ToAU Mission
other - Any other details you wish to add (mule names, playing times, ect)

Now that you've took a gander at that, you're probably slightly confused as to what to do with it. Highlight all the items in bold, copy (CTRL + C), goto your user page and paste it (Fig.3).

Figure.3

Right, so its pasted. To seal this deal all you have to do now is replace the XXX (boing!!) with the corresponding information. For instance where it says 'playername=XXX' you will change that to 'playername=LOLCHARACTERNAME'. Simple! Hop to it!

So you have your header (your LOLCHARACTERNAME) and your template. I hear you asking: "Well what else is there to add, Master Kykmi?" Oh ho my dear friend! There is ever so much more! Since we are just covering the basics of what you need, I will tell you how to add pictures, your wishlist, and some basic formatting code. Due to the wonders of technology and coding, you can easily place information under your header without destroying the formatting of your page (Fig.4).

Figure.4

Since we clearly want to add the wishlist, we can make a simple formatted list like this:

• lolWishlist
  • Hats
  • Gil
  • Sandwiches

Alternatively we could have something a bit more loud and obnoxious like this:

Wishlist

• Jesus
• A Chocobo
• Ice Cream
  

There are many ways you can choose to format your wishlist, but for now one of those two would be sufficient. The code for them are as follows.

*'''lolWishlist'''
**Hats
**Gil
**Sandwiches

===Wishlist===
*Jesus
*A Chocobo
*Ice Cream