Wiki How To's

Wiki How To's
Welcome to the How To's page for the Demons in my Nightmares wiki. Here I will be explaining how to do a few simple things such as add photos, music etc...are you ready? Let's begin!

How to upload and set a photo
Uploading photos to the wiki is simple and easy. First you have to have a photo on your computer that you would like to upload. Do you have one? Great! Next, do you see where it says Main Page with an arrow (>)? Just below that you will see a button that says Upload File. Click that. It will take you to another page. In the Source File, select your photo and hit okay. The photo should then appear. BEFORE YOU HIT UPLOAD FILE, RENAME THE 'DESTINATION FILENAME' TO YOUR CHARACTER'S FIRST NAME ONLY. IF YOUR CHARACTER ALREADY HAS ONE PICTURE, JUST ADD A 1 AFTER YOUR CHARACTER'S FIRST NAME. LEAVE THE .JPG OR .PNG ALONE, JUST RENAME THE BEGINNING OF THE PHOTO WHATEVER YOUR CHARACTER'S FIRST NAME IS.

Once everything is correct, hit Upload File. Now, remember what type of photo it is. There are two so far, .jpg and .png Go to the page that you wish to upload the photo to.

Click Edit.

Look for this type of coding ({|border="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" !align="center" colspan="2"| )

Now, do you see where it says ? Right after the : symbol, type in the name of your character's photo, I.E. Cody1 or Mercury; whatever your character's first name is. Remember that it is case sensitive. If you uploaded the photo with a capital letter to start with, put that capital letter in. Don't forget to put in the .jpg or .png at the end, and specify a pixel size. Normally I start out with photos (on the Character Claims page) being 200 pixels, however if they are too big you can mess with the size to make them smaller (140px or 170px.)

Photos on the actual CHARACTER BIO page NEED TO BE 225px.

So what is everything supposed to look like for a photo? It is supposed to look like this ...>    Obviously there is no INSERTPHOTOTITLEHERE photo (and no spaces in between the brackets,) but that is where you put your character's name, where it says to insert title.

If everything is correct the code should work and your newly uploaded photo should be visible!

How to add music or links to my bio
Adding music is the same as adding links. All you need are three things. Brackets ([]), a page URL and a title for it all. To start with, place one bracket like this [ Simple right? Next paste in a URL code so it will look like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHlg1WTDrWU

or this [http://demonsinmynightmares.proboards.com/index.cgi

Next, put ONE space in. Simple right? Just hit your spacebar one time, then put the title of the page so it will look like this

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHlg1WTDrWU Forever Young

or this [http://demonsinmynightmares.proboards.com/index.cgi Demons in my Nightmares

We are almost done! There is just one more thing to do and that is? Yep you guessed it! Place the ending bracket (]) at the very end. Make sure there are no spaces at the very end though. Just place the end bracket directly after the title so in all you will get this

Forever Young

or this

Demons in my Nightmares

Bios
So you want to know about bios hmm? Well the bios are just the same as the ones that you find on the DinM site except for the fact that the bios here go in to a little bit more detail and they also give the player the option of having a character theme song. When a new player is ACCEPTED on the site, their character claim and bio page are created on the wiki by the archivist Whitecollarfan, me! I fill out what I can but what I can't fill out is the responsibility of that character's PLAYER to fill in. Most everything (Image, Likes, Dislikes, Personality, History and sometimes Appearance) are already there but everything else needs to be filled in by the player.

An empty bio looks like this...

Short character description here

Physical Description

 * Height: ?ft ?in
 * Weight: ??? pounds
 * Eye Color: ?
 * Hair Color: ?
 * Hair Style: ?

Family

 * Father: Name Here. Remove brackets if you don't want to elaborate. Remove brackets and put NA if inapplicable
 * Mother: Name Here. Remove brackets if you don't want to elaborate. Remove brackets and put NA if inapplicable

Skills
Enter skills

Appearance
Enter appearance

Likes
Enter likes

Dislikes
Enter dislikes

Personality
Enter personality

Biography
Enter history

Extra's
Anything more you would like to add?