Help:Getting Started

This help page will quickly get your account and first page set up!

Creating a log in

 * 1) click Create account on the upper right hand corner
 * 2) username should be the prefix of your vandal email
 * 3) email should be your vandal email
 * 4) complete form and click Create account

Setup Account

 * 1) log in
 * 2) click on your name in the upper left hand corner
 * 3) Click on the create tab
 * 4) Add your name and email to the page
 * 5) Add your signiture using four tildas: ~
 * 6) click here and add your signature under you project name by typing four tildas: ~

Create a page

 * 1) enter the desired page name (exactly) into the search box
 * 2) if the page doesn't exist, click the name highlighted in red
 * 3) add some content
 * 4) click 'Save page' button

Setting up a page

 * 1) Click 'Discussion' (upper left corner)
 * 2) add your signature(using ~ ) on the discussion page.
 * 3) on the very last line of your page add a category
 * 4) valid choices: Capstone Design, Mindworks


 * 1) Rules for creating pages:
 * think carefully about the name, you can not rename pages or delete pages, only redirect old pages to new pages with correct names.
 * names should absolutely not be team names, but a descriptive name of the project
 * names should be distinctive enough distinguish from other/previous projects.
 * projects that are on-going (formula, snowmobile, tensegrity, etc.) need to be especially aware of this
 * Do Not Camel Case You Page Name Instead capitalize the first letter in the name, as well as any nouns.
 * make sure the name is descriptive enough to provide results from a search.
 * check for pages that are similar in name, use dates, manufacture, type of application, etc to distinguish between two similar pages.

Editing your page

 * 1) Click the edit tab
 * 2) Add the following to your page: (See: Wikipedia:Cheatsheet)
 * section 2, 3, 4 header (never use a section 1 header, page title are section 1s)
 * bulleted list
 * numbered List
 * mixed numbered/bulleted list using tabs
 * picture in thumb mode, aligned to the left of page, and width of 400 px
 * an internal link to another page
 * an external link
 * a reference
 * Note: the above link is for Wikipedia.org, which does their references slightly differently. Inserting underneath the ==References== section will not work. Instead use html hash tag
 * See 3D_Printing for an example of implementation.
 * 3 tables from Developers%27_Bulletin