FiveDollarWiki:Start Guide
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Start Guide for editing Your Pages
Please check back often as we are constantly updating this page.
First thing before editing your pages
Do not erase this line:
{{#security:edit|Max,YourName}}
This is for protecting against anonymous edits.
There's also Technorati tags which you can leave alone as they don't show up on your page but they are great for SEO. You can see How to add Technorati Tags below.
<tag>Yourpage</tag> <tag>money</tag> <tag>web2.0</tag> <tag>business</tag> <tag>money</tag> <tag>FiveDollarWiki</tag> <tag>FDW</tag>
How do I embed another website or webpage to my page?
You can easily embed another website using the websiteFrame tag:
You can play with the height, width, border, and scroll variables.
<websiteFrame> website=website=http://fibedollarwiki.com//www.thegaycartoonsite.com/featured.php height=200 width=670 border=0 scroll=no </websiteFrame>
You can make the width larger than 670 if you your webpage width is bigger. Try something like 1024.
How do I embed a MetaCafe video?
Here's how you can embed a MetaCafe video:
First, get the embed code:
<embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br><font size = 1><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball/">HOWTO Practice With 1 Golf Ball</a> - <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">The most popular videos are here</a></font>
Get this section: http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball.swf
then paste it something like this:
<websiteFrame> website=http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/823737/howto_practice_with_1_golf_ball.swf height=510 width=670 border=0 scroll=no </websiteFrame>
You will end up with this:
How do I embed a Youtube video?
Here's how you can Embed a Youtube video:
First, get the embed code:
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Get this section: http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4
then paste it something like this:
<websiteFrame> website=http://www.youtube.com/v/OQL4fLHFUe4 height=510 width=670 border=0 scroll=no </websiteFrame>
You will end up with this:
How do I add images to my page?
You can use the following syntax or press on the image button:
[[Image:MyPicture.jpg]]
The image button looks like this:
Save the page then when you go back to your page, you will be able to click on your image link and upload a new image file. Make sure the file extension matches your actual image.
e.g.
[[Image:MyPicture.jpg]] for jpeg [[Image:MyPicture.gif]] for gif [[Image:MyPicture.png]] for png
More advanced image methods
How do I embed an image from another website?
Linking your external image to a page on OBW
Let's say you want to load the Logo image from Zedomax.com and Link it to the Hacks page:
The code:
{{clickpic | Hacks | http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg}}
The result:
Linking your external image to a URL on OBW
Here's an example that links Logo image from Zedomax.com to URL http://Zedomax.com:
The code:
[http://zedomax.com http://zedomax.com/image/logo.jpg]
The result:
How do I resize the size of my images?
Let's say you want to re-size the image to 50 by 50 pixels.
You can do:
[[Image:MyPicture.jpg | 50x50px]]
Here's what you'd get after you uploaded the picture:
Check out WikipediaExtened Image syntax for more advanced methods.
How do I add Google ads?
For a google ad like this:
<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3379402347635671"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel = ""; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script>
You can do this:
Use <myscript> for the first part and <wikiscript src=" "> for the 2nd part.
Replace the first <script> tags with <myscript> and the second <script> tags with <wikiscript src=" ">.
<myscript> <!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3379402347635671"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel = ""; //--> </myscript> <wikiscript src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </wikiscript>
This is what you'd get:
How do I add my pages to categories?
Here's how you can add your page(s) to as many categories as you want. You can even add new categories if one doesn't exist for you.
Simple add the following code:
[[Category:Advertising]]
You can replace the word Advertising with any other category word you wish. To see a list of existing categories, you can always scroll to the bottom of our Main_Page.
You can also add your pages and a description to the category pages, which are user-editable. For example, you can goto and edit the page.
This will give you "DOUBLE" presence, meaning you will show up on categories plus the description. Still don't get it? Don't worry. We constantly surf user's pages and add them for you or you can always e-mail us with a description to support [at] fivedollarwiki.com. :)
What does this for your pages?
Basically, you will get indexed 10 times better by search engines since now search engines have categories to relate to. The more categories you relate to, the better you will show up for your keywords.
Here's a list of category codes you can simply copy and paste:
[[Category:Advertising]] [[Category:Animals]] [[Category:Blogs]] [[Category:Bizarre]] [[Category:Business]] [[Category:Free]] [[Category:E Stores]] [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Health]] [[Category:Home]] [[Category:Humor]] [[Category:Law]] [[Category:Marketing]] [[Category:Medical]] [[Category:Money]] [[Category:Movies]] [[Category:Music]] [[Category:Social Networking]] [[Category:Technology]] [[Category:Web Design]] [[Category:Web Technology]]
How do I add Google Maps to my page?
Here's an example of adding the home of FiveDollarWiki to our Community Maps page:
Add yourself to our CommunityMap
How do I RSS Feeds to my page?
If you have a blog or website with RSS Feed, you can easily bring up your posts on your page.
How to add only the title names of your RSS Feed
Here's the code for grabbing the latest 5 posts from http://zedomax.com.
<rss>http://zedomax.com/blog/feed/ |charset=UTF-8|short|max=5</rss>
Result:
zedomax.com
- DealMAX ? Deals of the Week on Gadgets, Laptops, and Desktop PCs!
- Battery DIY ? How to Make a Battery from Beer!
- iDongle ? Stand-Alone iPhone Tethered Boot Device for Jailbroke iPhones
- iPhone DIY ? How to Replace iPhone Battery!
- Sled Hack ? How to Make a Ski Sled!
How to add only the title and brief descriptions of your RSS Feed
Here's the code for grabbing the latest 5 posts with brief description from http://zedomax.com.
<rss>http://zedomax.com/blog/feed/ |charset=UTF-8|max=5</rss>
Result:
zedomax.com
- DealMAX ? Deals of the Week on Gadgets, Laptops, and Desktop PCs!
- You know Buy.com always has some great deals on gadgets and I have bought many of my SD cards for almost fractions of retail prices. Here’s some great Buy.com deals on gadgets and also HP laptop/desktop PC deals of the week you might be interested in: Panasonic TC-P46S1 46? Widescreen 1080p Plasma HDTV $762.00 After Instant Rebate Click Here [...]
- Battery DIY ? How to Make a Battery from Beer!
- Believe it or not, yes, your average beer can make enough electricity to power an LED! Next time you have leftover beer, you now know you can recycle energy.
- iDongle ? Stand-Alone iPhone Tethered Boot Device for Jailbroke iPhones
- For those of you with jailbroke iPhones, you might be interested in the new iDongle, a DIY stand-alone device that will allow your jailbroke iPhone to tether boot when you iPhone runs out of batteries or resets due to a software bug. A neat little device I’d say.
- iPhone DIY ? How to Replace iPhone Battery!
- Probably one of the unfortunate facts about an iPhone is that it comes with a permanent battery that’s hard to replace.
- Sled Hack ? How to Make a Ski Sled!
- For those of you who want to make better sleds that can go faster and more narly down the slopes, try making yourself one of these ski sleds made from a pair of old skis.
Parameters
max: You can set the number of feeds to grab. If you set this to 50, you will get 50 latest posts.
short: Adding this parameter will only show the titles of your feed.
How do I add Technorati Tags to my page?
You can add Technorati tags to your pages for better SEO.
These tags are invisible to the readers, only visible to Technorati or other search engines.
Here's an example of adding tags to this page:
<tag>start guide</tag> <tag>onebuckwiki</tag> <tag>wiki</tag> <tag>web2.0</tag> <tag>howto</tag> <tag>guide</tag> <tag>business</tag>
How do I promote my pages and bring more traffic?
Although we do a lot of viral marketing to bring traffic to the site, you can help us and yourself by promoting your pages or anyone else's to social networking sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Propeller, Reddit, or any other social networking sites.
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