Those who create content and maintain pages in the Canisius College wiki should follow a consistent set of guidelines for organization and page style. Visitors - students, faculty, staff, and outside clients - should encounter a consistent experience wherever they are in the wiki. For example, if you neglect to add menus, use headings, follow good practices for linking file attachments, and removing out of date content, your intended visitors may fail to find, or worse, find the wrong information in your wiki pages.
Happily, the tools and practices described below are simple and easy to follow.
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Another helpful tip: you can use a single Table cell just to act as a highlight box for particularly important text. For example:
Your Readers are more likely to notice this, because it is in a single table cell. |
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Macros
We recommend two macros for use across the wiki.
Table of Contents
Lists headings The Table of Contents Macro lists text formatted in Heading Styles, in numerical, nested order, on pages. Configurable based on included headings. Any lengthy page, with multiple headings (like this one) should have a Table of Contents macroIt is configurable, but even the default macro will improve any lengthy page. Here's an example:
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Tutorial Video Adding Navigation to your Confluence Pages
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00:00 Do Not Rely on the SideBar Menu 01:21 Children Display Macro 03:49 Adding Internal Links Manually 06:38 Add "Back" Links to Wiki Pages |
Verify that these two work on mobile.
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