TechCompare:Help

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Contents 1 TechCompare Help 2 Editing a page 2.1 Bold text 2.2 Italic text 2.3 Internal links 2.4 External links 2.5 Headers 3 What a comparison page should look like 3.1 ABC 3.1.1 Pros: 3.1.2 Cons: 3.2 XYZ 3.2.1 Pros: 3.2.2 Cons: 3.3 Conclusion 3.4 Sources

TechCompare Help

[edit] Editing a page

Editing a page is simple! All it takes is to click the "edit" button up in the corner. However, instead of HTML, you use Wikicode, which is a set of markup which will be explained below.

[edit] Bold text

To produce bold text, sorround the text you wish to make bold with three apostrophes (which is a '). For example,

'''Wikis are awesome!'''

produces: Wikis are awesome!.

[edit] Italic text

To produce italic text, sorround the text you wish to make italic with two apostrophes (which is a '). For example,

''Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis''

produces: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

[edit] Internal links

To make internal links, that is, links that go to other pages within TechCompare, simply sorround the page title of the page you'd like to link to with [[ and ]]. For example,

[[TechCompare:About]]

produces: TechCompare:About.

However, if you'd like to link to read one thing, but go to another, you could do:

• Place [[
• Write the title of the article you wish to link to
• A vertical bar (which is a |)
• The text which you'd like to have appear as the link.
• Place ]]

For example,

[[TechCompare:About|the About page]]

produces: the About page.

[edit] External links

To make external links, that is, links that go to pages outside of TechCompare, place a [, followed by the URL, and some text to go along with it describing the link. For example,

[http://www.wikicities.com Wikia]

produces: Wikia.

[edit] Headers

See TechCompare:Help/Headers

[edit] What a comparison page should look like

Below is generally how a comparison page should be formatted. For this example, the name of the page is ABC vs. XYZ.

This page compares ABC-brand computers with XYZ-brand computers.

[edit] ABC

[edit] Pros:

• Pro A
• Pro B
• Pro C

(More pros can be added if necessary)

[edit] Cons:

• Con A
• Con B
• Con C

[edit] XYZ

[edit] Pros:

• Pro A
• Pro B
• Pro C

(More pros can be added if necessary)

[edit] Cons:

• Con A
• Con B
• Con C
• Con D

(More pros can be added if necessary)

[edit] Conclusion

Here, you place which is better for what purposes.

[edit] Sources

Place where you obtained information for each brand, MLA-style preferred but not required.

Also, you should place each comparison page into a category by doing [[Category:Name of category]]