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Style Guide

General Formatting Tips

  • Avoid using ALL CAPS in text and in headlines. Just as in an email, using all caps creates the feeling that you're shouting at your readers.

  • Similarly, avoid using “Header” style for anything other than actual headlines. This also creates a negative shouting effect.

  • Avoid using more than two formatting styles in either headlines or body text. Using bold, italic, and underlining on one word or phrase is overkill.

  • Using lots of exclamation points in headlines and text will end up having the opposite effect!!! They lose their emphasis, people will start to read over them, and you'll appear to be shouting!!! Use judiciously!!!

  • Similarly, avoid using italic or boldface text for large blocks of text. Consider this rule: If everything is bold, then nothing is bold. Save bold and italic formatting for when you want to emphasize a word, phrase, or subhead. Then it will really stand out.

  • Consistency is key. You should decide whether you want to use italics or bold for emphasis and stick with your decision throughout the site. Ideally, you should use bold for emphasis of keywords/phrases and italics for things like names of books and films (like in AP style).

Avoid Blank Pages

If you create a page and aren't quite done with it, you can let your site members know how they can contribute. That's what a wiki is all about! This helps from leaving pages completely blank. Just put a call to action on the page asking for contributions.





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Anonymous Tabs and code indentation/formatting is lost 3 Apr 11 2008, 1:22 PM EDT by Anonymous
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On pasting C/C++ code on a wiki page, all indentation and formatting is lost. It becomes very frustating for other team members to read such a thing.. I donot wish to attach files all the time. Is there a way to preserve tab indents?
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Reaper560 layouts? 1 Apr 6 2008, 7:17 PM EDT by budde
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Can you actually put a background image for your site?;)
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Anonymous deepred style -- can I modify the top pane? (where wiki name appears)? 3 Jan 18 2008, 3:10 AM EST by Madusha
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Hi, the top header, where the name of your wiki appears on the deepred style, is blank/white with only the wiki name. I was wondering if I could change the color somewhere?

Anyone an idea, or do I need to change the style for this?

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Anonymous How do I manage blank lines between paragraphs? 5 Dec 19 2007, 2:32 PM EST by jeremy_wetpaint
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The style guide says "Put a line space between each paragraph." But how can I do this consistently?

Sometimes blank lines display in the editor but disappear in the page display, and sometimes the opposite happens! Is there a method for entering blank lines that displays correctly in both the editor and the page?
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Anonymous What about css? 1 Sep 8 2007, 7:16 AM EDT by budde
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Does (or will) WetPaint support css or html code for advanced users?
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