How To Edit

In order to edit, you may either click the edit button toward the top of the page (between Read and View History). Or you can click the edit button to the right of each section. If you're new to editing, you should probably edit an individual section, rather than the whole page.

Click "edit" on any section of this page to see what it looks like in edit mode.

Once you've created your content and made your changes, make sure to click the words "Save page" at the bottom of the page. If you don't do that then your editing will not be saved. If you screw something up and you want to revert to a previous incarnation of the page, you can always do that through the "View history" section up at the top next to the Edit button.

To create a section that automatically appears in the table of contents, put two equal signs around a word or phrase. At least 4 sections are needed to create the table of contents.

Subsections are created by putting additional equal signs around a word or phrase. Subsections are individually editable, but they don't appear in the table of contents.

Three apostrophes around a word or phrase makes it Bold. You can also just cursor over the word or phrase and click the "B" for Bold icon that appears if you're in edit mode.

Two apostrophes around a word or phrase makes it Italicized. You can also just cursor over the word or phrase and click the "I" for Italics icon that appears in edit mode.

A link is created by putting brackets around the URL and whatever you want to appear on the page as the link. This is the format: [URL words that appear as a link]. For example, this is a link to OCDLA: Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Anything after the space following the URL and before the closed bracket will appear as the link on the page.

On some pages, you might see a link to another page on this site using double brackets and underscores. But if you're reading this and you want to link to another page on this site, you can just copy the URL and paste it in as you just learned in the last paragraph. Like this: Sandbox. This is the other way you might see it: Sandbox.

To get a file from your computer onto the website, go to the "Upload File" link at the bottom of the left hand column. Click "Browse" to find the file and "Upload file" to upload it.

PDF: If the file is a PDF, click onto the link to the PDF that now appears on the page. Copy that URL and create a link to that page as it says to do under Links above.

Word: If the file is a .doc Word document, then copy the URL from the page that you're viewing right after you've uploaded it. Use the URL you've copied to create a link as it says to do under Links above. You can't create a URL to view the Word document because the user will his or her Word program on his computer to download the document. So you just need to get them to the point where they can download it.