User:Ben Yi Tew/temp

This page shall be my temporary sandbox where I build my little sandcastles...

Boring Links
A boring way to link to a page is just to write IGEM:IMPERIAL/2007, but it looks horribly inelegant... Yes, like this: IGEM:IMPERIAL/2007

Pipe Links
What's a pipe? It's the weird character that sticks up vertically (|)! How do they make your links look nicer? You add a pipe to it! So you write Imperial iGEM 2007 and it'll come out as:  Imperial iGEM 2007

Red Links
The easiest way to create a new page is to link to it... you'll be prompted to edit it when you click on the "broken" (or red) link!

Anchoring
Anchoring is the process of moving around anchors on the same page, it's quite an enjoyable process if the page is too long... note that the contents page uses anchors!

Anchoring to Other Sections
To anchor to other sections, they MUST be (sub/sub-sub...)headings, simply use, so if I want to jump to the "Playing with Text" subsection, I use Jump there NOW! , and I'll end up with this Jump there NOW!! Jumping to the top is done simply with ... but this button doesn't work too well on Firefox...

Making Your Own Anchor
This requires a slightly tricky bit of HTML, but all you need to do is to write down  at the site of anchorage... and when you have a link my anchor, you'll jump to the anchor on the page! Guess where I hid my anchor!

Formatting
Yes, I've just made a section!

Section in Section
It's called a subheading...

And on... and on...
Of course, too many sub-sections can be rather confusing... so how is it done?

Playing with Text
You can do a lot of things to your text depending on your mood... bold it with bold italicize it with italics mix them both up by combining both! bold and italics You can superscript with superscript Or subscript with superscript Even strike through your text (why would you want to do it?) strikethrough You can also underline it when you're bored! underline I've never seen a single coloured word on wikipedia... have you seen a coloured word before? Oh, if you really want your text to be in the center of the page, you can surround all your text with yes, I want this centered, and you'll get... yes, I want this centered

Footnoting
Luckily, OWW has made it easier (or for some, harder) to make references... since most synthetic biology papers can be found somewhere on pubmed, OWW has devoted a special referencing system for pubmed! All you need to write is Synthetic Biology at the point of reference, so you get, I got my idea from a paper SyntheticBiology (No spaces inbetween)! But then you ask, where's the citation? Well, you still need to include a bibliography section with all the PubMed ID of the papers in it! #SyntheticBiology pmid=17611530 And guess what happens! #SyntheticBiology pmid=17611530 Where do you find the PubMed ID? Just search for the paper in PubMed and it'll be there! Isn't this convenient...? Or not...?

Uploading
There is an "upload file" option somewhere on your screen, click on it and you'll be prompted to "upload" some file! The "Destination Filename" would be the ultimate name of your file or image, so don't make it too obscure! I have already uploaded My_adorable_sheepy.gif‎‎ onto wikipedia! Note: If the filename is already used, Wiki will ask you whether you would like to overwrite the current one

Embedding Images
To put My_adorable_sheepy.png‎ on the website such that everyone can see it, all that is required is ! Look! Isn't it cute? Of course... if you want it to look more scientific, you could always add a frame to it with, and it'll align it to the right for you too! If frames are still not enough, you can add more caption after the frams! ... Other interesting things will include creating a gigantic sheep There are loads more you can do with images, so try it out yourself! If you ever feel that there's enough text beside the images, you can use the command to move all the following text after the image!

Linking to Other Files
Say, if you have a powerpoint or a paper that you want to post on Wiki, you can always upload it for others to download! But what sort of link do you create? Instead of Image:, use Media:... for example, [[Media:Example_of_an_empty_file.txt|A boring paper]] and it'll come out as: [[Media:Example_of_an_empty_file.txt|A boring paper]]

Tables
It's too complicated...

Signature
Ben Yi Tew 21:09, 11 July 2007 (EDT): Writing your signature is as easy as writing ~ Ben Yi Tew: If you think that just your name is sufficient, then all you need is  21:09, 11 July 2007 (EDT): If you only want a time stamp, then you should write

Talk Page
We all have a talk page... my talk page is at User_talk:Ben_Yi_Tew, so feel free to spam me 24/7! There should be a My Talk button somewhere on the page which drags you towards your talk page and nudges you to message someone...

Editing Resources
Two main places to go to if you're stuck while editing something or forgot the code that creates a certain effect... OWW Help Page Wikimedia Help Page Then again, just ask the person beside you, he/she probably would know!