Editing User talk:Sandungas

==My To Do wiki pages==

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==Lazy dog wiki tutorials==

===How to upload and display images===

**The purpose of this step-by-step tutorial is to use a method to upload images and display them in wiki in the most simple and fast way without the need to remember any wiki trick code or anything, the point is to have a solid procedure to remember and use always (is brainless and the fastest way i know)

**The upload of images is simple, and the display depends of what you want to do with the image, are explained below

*Step 4a '''Choose a way to display the image''' (gallery mode)

**In wiki most of the times (most used as far i remember though im sure there are more) the images are displayed using 3 ways, as a "gallery" of images (used when is needed to display several images together), inside a <nowiki><div></nowiki> frame (used to display a single or couple of images in a bigger size displaced to right to serve as introduction to a page section or whole page), inside a table (for eyecandy, or to use the table contour as a frame limiter), or inside a template (to create wiki icons of small size)

**For the example im using, im uploading two photos using the <nowiki><gallery></nowiki> display mode, there are really a lot of pages in wiki using it, but im going to copy it from [[COK-00x|COK-001]] page (first hit in main page in one of the motherboard models)

**Click in the [[COK-00x|COK-001]] page, click in the "Edit" tab, scroll down to the edit area and copy one of the galleries completlly (all lines, lazy ass remember ?):

**Go to the page where you want to add your shiny new gallery, click in "edit" the new page and paste the whole gallery (dont save your changes to the page yet)

**Now you need to replace the images by yours, go to the [[Special:RecentChanges]] page where you can see the links of the images you uploaded before, click in all them and open them in your browser in different tabs. In every image page, double click in the file name that appears on bold at top and copy (is the name with spaces, starting with ''File:'' and ending in the ''fileextension'')

**Paste the names in your gallery this way (is a double copypaste foe each image, and the most at right has been removed the ''File:'' and ''fileextension'')

*Step 4b '''Choose a way to display the image''' (<nowiki><div></nowiki> mode)

**This is used mostly with a single image (or a couple) that works as an introduction to a whole page or to a section of a page, because the text is aligned to left what we do is to align the image to right-top (either top of a page, or top of a section). This doesnt works very well in wiki because there is an overlapping of text when the page is rendered at different screen resolutions, keep this in mind, we dont use images bigger than 300 or 400 pixels for this display mode and there are some wiki editors that are stricts with this rule so try to dont abuse much of this display mode, it breaks small screens

**The page i use to copypaste the code from is [[XMB]] (single image), [[PlayStation 3 Theme (P3T)]] (2 images horizontally), or [[Teensy%2B%2B_2.0|Teensy++ 2.0]] (several images vertically)

**Click in any of those pages, and click in "edit" tab, copy the line with the <nowiki><div></nowiki> (from start to end), something like:

**Paste in your new page and edit it properlly, you need to replace the image path in the server, the description, and choose a size, so it becomes for my example:

**If you find some problem of overlapping of texts, sections horizontal line separators, or disalignments you can add an empty page divider at bottom with <nowiki><div></div></nowiki> that works as a "page break" (preferably), or one or several <nowiki><br></nowiki> that works as a line feed (not preferably, this is too dirty)

*Step 4c '''Choose a way to display the image''' (table mode)

**It works as a combination of a standard "wikitable" where you can choose to make the border lines transparent, use a font type, colors, etc... and inside each table cell is displayed an image with a defined size, you can see examples of this tables used at bottom of [[Motherboard Revisions]] page and some subsections of [[Teensy%2B%2B_2.0|Teensy++ 2.0]] page

*Step 4d '''Choose a way to display the image''' (for wiki icons)

**Wiki icons are made by including an image inside a template. Im not going to explain how templates works here (for an icon are very basic but templates are very complicated up to a point that admits arguments where are called)

**Basically you are going to create a very simple template that contains only two thing: the image itself, and a footer to categorize the page in wiki indexing, as before the first thing to do it to find a similar page to copypaste the footer, my favourite one (is the official Dr. frankenstein laboratory, feel free to use it to experiment) is [[TemplateTest]], for this examples we are going to use the subsection about [[TemplateTest#PS3_Buttons|PS3 Buttons]]. the reason why using this section for the examples is because i created templates for the buttons in two different ways based on the size of the images

**First, you need to decide if the icons you are creating are going to be used very frequentlly in a specific size, as example.... to be used inside text lines like this {{padps}} (note his size doesnt disalign previous or next text line). I decided to create specific templates to use dualshock button icons inside text lines to display button combos like in this page [[More_System_Information#How_to_get_this|More System Information]]. The standard font size of webbrowsers is 23 pixels size, so i made a set of templates at 23 pixel heigh to simplify the usage, this way you can call the template directlly without the need to specify the size of the icon

**Also, if you consider some other wiki editor eventually will need to display the icon at a different size, you can make another set of templates with the original size of the image (this works by not specifying the size when creating the template, it will be displayed as original size, not scaled)

**Nowadays, after practising a bit with templates i realize the solution to use a single template to display an icon at different sizes is by using an argument when calling it, it can be fixed in the icons i made but has not been done yet, and what i just explained is good enought to create icons in a easy way, works fine and has been using for a long time without problems so play with it a bit

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