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When used properly, all of these templates will adjust to the screen size of the current viewer. So people on phones can read everything just as well as someone visiting on a desktop computer.
When used properly, all of these templates will adjust to the screen size of the current viewer. So people on phones can read everything just as well as someone visiting on a desktop computer.


== Before You Start ==
== Before You Start ==


* You must be comfortable '''not''' using the "visual editing" option at all. '''All edits must be done using the "Source editing" option.'''
* '''All edits must be done in the "Edit source" tab.'''
* These are templates, so I may make improvements on them. Do not be surprised if you see the boxes behaving or looking different.
* These are templates, so I may make improvements on them. Do not be surprised if you see the boxes behaving or looking different.
* Plan out your pages - a little planning goes a long way. Figure out how you would like to organized the information by answering the following questions:
* Plan out your pages - a little planning goes a long way. Figure out how you would like to organized the information by answering the following questions:
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** What levels of information do I have? Think sections, subsections within those section, and then titles within those subsections. Create a hierarchy of information that makes sense to the information you have.
** What levels of information do I have? Think sections, subsections within those section, and then titles within those subsections. Create a hierarchy of information that makes sense to the information you have.


= Tutorial =
Here I will walk you through a simple tutorial where we create a page with a couple of announcements, two different lists of resources, and an article written about my FHC. This should give you a good idea of how to use the templates for creating your own family history center page.
== 1. Decide what sections you need ==
Everything on a page should be organized into sections. Think of a section like a chapter in a book - its purpose is to group like content together. When you are planning out your page you may have one section or many sections depending on how much information you are displaying.
In our example we have a couple of announcements, two different lists of resources and an article written about my FHC. Let's make three sections, "Announcements" where all of the FHC announcements are located, "Resources" where you can find a list of various resources for doing research in your area, and "Articles" for the cool published articles about my family history center.
Of course, when you are planning out your family history center page, you may have different sections. Do what makes most sense for your family history center when deciding what sections to create.
== 2. Order your sections ==
Now that we have our sections, we need to put them in order from most important to least important. This will determine what order the sections show up on your page. For our example, I want "Articles" first because I want people to see the article written about my family history center, then "Announcements" because we have several events hosted at our family history center, and I want visitors to know what is going on, and finally "Resources" where people who are doing research in our area can go to to find local links.
== 3. Create your sections using [https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Template:Kalispell_FHC_Section Kalispell FHC Section] template ==
Now we will use the "Kalispell FHC Section" template to create each of our sections. This template allows you to type in the name and the content for each of your sections and then takes care of all the formatting. Each section has the title with an underline at the top, and a link "Back to Top" at the bottom. All of your content should end up between the line and the "Back to Top" link.
For now we are just going to create sections with titles and no content.
'''3A.''' Open up the page you would like to edit and click "Edit source" at the top. You will probably see a lot of text on the page. If you are planning on replacing everything, you can delete it all and start with a blank page.
'''3B.''' Figure out where on the page you would like to create your first section. If you just deleted everything, this will just be at the very top.
'''3C.''' Copy everything in the box below.
<pre>
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title =
| Section Content =
}}
</pre>
'''3D.''' Go back to "Edit source" and paste everything you just copied into where you would like your first section.
'''3E.''' Where it says "Section Title" type in your title for your first section after the equals sign. Below is an example of what it should look like if the name of your section is "Articles."
<pre>
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Articles
| Section Content =
}}
</pre>
'''3F.''' At the bottom of "Edit Source" click the button that says "Show Preview." This button allows you to see the changes you made without saving the page. You should see something similar to the box below, with your section name as the text above the line.
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Articles
| Section Content =
}}
'''3G.''' Repeat steps 2B through 2E with the rest of your sections. Below is an example of what it would like if you had three section "Articles," "Announcements," and "Resources," in that order.
<pre>
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Articles
| Section Content =
}}
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Announcements
| Section Content =
}}
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Resources
| Section Content =
}}
</pre>


= [https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Template:Kalispell_FHC_Section Kalispell FHC Section] Template =
'''3H.''' After you have created all of your sections, hit the "Show preview" button again. It should look something like the example below.
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Articles
| Section Content =
}}
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Announcements
| Section Content =
}}
{{Kalispell FHC Section
| Section Title = Resources
| Section Content =
}}


This section template is the backbone of the whole page. The boxes below can be used on their own, however, they will work much better inside a section block. The section block makes it so that the boxes show up next to each other in a row, instead of only stacking on top.
= This tutorial is unfinished. Below this title are my notes... they will not make sense from the tutorial above. =


Sections have a couple of optional fields, that will change the way it looks depending if they are filled out or not.
Sections have a couple of optional fields, that will change the way it looks depending if they are filled out or not.
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