How to Create Pages

How to Create Pages

Create Pages by

• Logging in with your WPI username
• Searching for the title of your project in the search bar at the left. If the search comes back with zero results, you will be asked to "create this page" with that name. Click that link to begin creating that page.
• Create the page and click edit at the top.
• Suggestion: copy the contents of this page as a template starting point for your page
• Choose one or more categories (shown on the main page) that you feel your project falls into and create a category tags such as [[Category:Algorithmic Composition]] or [[Category:Interactive Systems]]. You can see all of the categories from the main page.
• Add a description and links to the content you're submitting by formatting them as [//www.mylink.com The Thing My Link Goes To].
• See steps below for uploading and linking to content
• Once your page is complete, click save and review it. Go to the main page and ensure that your page shows up in the proper categories.

Complete List of Categories

Projects

[[Category:Interactive Systems]]

[[Category:Multimedia]]

[[Category:Gaming]]

[[Category:Pedagogy, Theory, and Research Resources]]

[[Category:Development Toolkits]]

Works

[[Category:Music (classical)]]

[[Category:Music_(popular, contemporary, non-classical)]]

[[Category:Algorithmic, Interactive, & Electro-acoustic Compositions]]

[[Category:Sound Design]]

[[Category:Film, Video, and Related Scores]]

[[Category:Scores and Arrangements]]

[[Category:Multimedia]]

[[Category:Writings, Papers, Tutorials,and Documentation]]

How to Upload & Link to Content

Upload Content in two ways: Using WPI Storage (for large files)

• Mapping a network drive (WPI support info) to:

Windows: \\media.wpi.edu\Manzo Mac: smb://media.wpi.edu/Manzo

• Create a sub-folder for your project
• The ‘web link’ to files put in that location will be:

http://media.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/HUA/Manzo/my_filename.xxx If you create folders in there then: http://media.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/HUA/Manzo/my_folder/my_filename.xxx

Embed Video and Audio

Embed Video by

• You may embed YouTube video with the following tag:

<youtube>VideoID</youtube>

Note: The VideoID for your video is the alpha-numeric code after v= in the URL once uploaded to YouTube. Alternately, if you look at the “Share” link for a video, it’s the code at the end. E.g.: for http://youtu.be/sUC-20Z_EKM, the ID would be sUC-20Z_EKM.

Embed Audio by

Embed Images by

• Uploading the image somewhere
• You may embed the image with the following tag:

[[File:image_name.png]]