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Creating Your Wiki / Adding Images & Video




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In this section I'm going to show you how to add images and video to your WikiSpaces wiki. So I'm just going to tab back over to my Firefox browser that I'm using and this is on the Apple Macintosh and I'm on the dogs page of my Dawn VTC wiki, topic being dog and I am going to edit this page. Because I found a picture of a doggie that I really think is cute and I want to add it to show people a good representation of a fine specimen of dog. So I'm going to click edit this page and I just want to put my picture in right here. And at the top of the screen you'll notice these different buttons, nice colorful buttons. The one that we're interested in at this point in time is the one that has the picture of, it looks like a little palm tree and it says insert images and files. So I'm going to click on that and I'm going to insert a file, I'm going to upload it from my computer and I will point out to you here where it says insert external image by URL. It's really, really poor form to link directly to someone else's image without their permission. This is really to be used whenever you're hosting that image. Because what you do is every time that page is loaded it loads it from their server which creates a large amount of server drain and can cost them quite frankly a lot of money if your page is being loaded often and it makes people, really, really cranky. So I encourage you to not do that, save a picture off if you got permission to use it and either host it yourself or upload it using this upload new file interface and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to browse to it and it's on my desktop, nice picture of a doggie there, now I will point out to you that this doggie I downloaded from wiki media comments of all places from user ACS four B and this is actually a picture of his doggie and it is usable through the GPL license so I'm going to upload. And we have the option here, double clicking the file will either insert the file or link to the file. And I'm going to double click it to insert it into the page and it is a large image and I have options here to align it, left center or right. I'm just going to leave it alone. We have the option to make it linkable, like if I wanted to link to that particular breed I could make the image itself link which I'm not going to do right now and we have the option for a caption which I'm going to name, just put dog here and then close this and close this box. So now we have a cute picture of a dog in our dogs page, very easily done. Now this can be done with different types of media, images and various types of files and I encourage you to get in there and add some pictures to really personalize your wiki.

Tutorial Information

Course: Introduction to Wikis
Author: Dawn Dunkerly
SKU: 33853
ISBN: 1-934743-52-6
Release Date: 2008-02-27
Duration: 3.5 hrs / 58 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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