
Wednesday November 08, 2006
Adding items to the Visual Web Pack FAQ page NetBeans Visual Web Pack FAQ is now live and available for people to begin adding entries. | |
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This FAQ is created as a wiki so that anyone can enter questions and answers as they come across them. However, I recently tried to enter a few items and found myself fumbling around in the editor trying to make sense of what to do next. Here are a few things to help others that aren't that wiki savy, like myself. | | 1) First, you will need to create a Netbeans Wiki account. Once you've accomplished getting an account, log-in and go to the FAQ site. | | 2) Next click on the “edit page” tab. This page can look a little scary at first, but don't worry, you don't have to change that much to get an entry added to the FAQ. | | 3) Scroll down to the section that you want to enter you FAQ item under. This will be a section that starts with either a single “!” or a double “!!” | | 4) Once you're at the section you want, add another line that looks just like this, but contains the text that you want to add. | |
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| * [This will be the text that shows up as the question | VwpFAQshorttitle_of_page] | -- The star at the beginning places a bullet at the beginning of the list item | | -- [ ] braces make the entire things a link to the actual answer page | | -- The first part is the question. Place a “ | “ between the question and the page title | -- The page title should be something short and descriptive. Look at other entries to get an idea | -- The page title should always start with “VwpFAQ” this is for searching | |
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| 5) Save the page | | 6) You should now be able to scroll down and see your question as one of the bullet items in the list. Click on your new link. | | 7) This will bring you to another edit window for the answer page. You can use the code below as a template for starting out your answer page | |
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| !! This is the same question that you had on the last page? Start typing out your answer down here. |
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| That's it. Save the page when you are done editing the answer. You can click on the Help tab (right beside the Edit tab) at any time to get help on formatting of the text. You won't loose your changes when switching between the help tab and the edit tab, so don't worry about that. | | Now, Start adding those FAQ's!! | |
(2006-11-08 16:12:04.0)
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Breaking the glass with a Non-article I had an interesting conversation this morning with Diana Reichardt about the new non-article on Sun.com's home page. This is a simple link to what started as a blank blog with an opening question and lets the rest be filled in through the comments of those that come to the page. With the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference going on this week in San Francisco, she decided to just open up a blog and allow people to provide their input on “Where is Web 2.0”. There was a conscious effort not to name this “What”, or “Why”. Now you can argue if a blog is the right place to start a conversation or to present open viewpoints from random visitors to the web site (it seems to be working so far), but you have to applaud the attempt to bring interactive exchange to the sun.com web site. It's about time someone broke the glass ceiling and started trying new things on this site. Hats off to Diana! I look forward to more creative and forward thinking ideas from the sun.com team.
(2006-11-08 11:20:50.0)
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