User:Ventige Boh/Tips on Making a Guild Wars Wiki Page

How do I make a Guild Wars Wiki page?

First, make sure that the topic you are making (what the page is about) isn't already made. For example, you shouldn't make a Guild page, since it is already made. (To find out if its made, type the topic you want to make a page on in the "search" box, and if it isn't already in use, there should be a paragraph stating that there isn't a page found, and that you can create your own by clicking on the hyper link.) After you find out that the page isn't made, go ahead and click on the hyper link. After that, it should bring you to a text-box, with symbols above it. Just start typing about what your topic is.

How do I make it look "Professional?

Making it look professional is actually pretty easy. All you have to do is use the icons to there full advantage. For example, use the symbol "Ab" to make a hyper link, routing people to a page already made, like I did with the word "Guild" in the previous paragraph. Use pictures of things alot, but not too much. An example of that would be if your making a page about a quest, and in the rewards section would like to show people a picture of a gold piece to "spice" it up a bit. To explain further on that, here's what I mean. What looks better, Example 1 or Example 2?

Example 1

Reward:

250 (Gold)

1,000 Experience

450 Vanguard reputation points

Example 2

250 Gold

1,000 Experience

450 Vanguard reputation points

Obviously, Example 1 looks more professional, and not only uses a picture of the gold piece to show people what it looks like, but also gives people a link to follow so they can better understand what benefits they would get from the quest. Keep these type of things in mind when creating pages (not necessarily just for quest pages, either)

Great, but sometimes my links dont work, and I cant get the picture of the gold piece to show up

To answer the link question, you first have to make sure that the page you linked to even exists! If it does, make sure that you spell it right.

And for the gold question, the gold piece picture is not a "jpg" picture, like most things, but a "png" picture. meaning, when you click on the Picture button, instead of it saying Save it as.

The picture of the gold piece is so big, how do I make it smaller?

There is another way to make a gold piece. Instead of doing it the usual way you can also do this: {gold} (except with two of the "{ }" things around it.

How do I stop people from messing up my page?

To answer that simply: You can't. But you can easily make the page normal again by highlighting all of the text in the text box (what you use to make the page) and either right click and select "Copy" or hold Ctrl+V, then opening a Microsoft Word document (or any other writing programs) and Right Click and select "Paste", or hold Ctrl+C. Then save the document. So if a person messes up everything on the page, the page will be back to normal in a matter of seconds. It is recommended that you make a file in the writing program called "Guild Wars Wiki Pages" and save all of your pages into it, just in case somebody messes your page up.

I have noticed that some people have links that say something, but lead to a totally different page, how do I do that?

Yes, people do that alot. As a matter of fact, I did that on this page! See the Vanguard reputation points link? If you click on it, it leads to a page called "Ebon Vanguard Rank". So, you would like to know how to do this? First, when you make a link, it comes up with [Link Title]. If you want to make something say one word, like Guild, but lead to another, like Alliance, all you have to do is this: [Alliance|Guild], so the link would actually look like this: Guild