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--- user_guides:welcome [2020/03/28 13:56] – ben
+++ user_guides:welcome [2020/03/28 14:16] (current) – [General Website Information] ben
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-Hey everyone, thanks for volunteering to edit this site.
+====== Welcome New Users! ======
+Thanks for volunteering to edit this site.
 I am planning on setting up the main tree structure for all of the pages myself and then leaving a bunch of blank pages there for easy editing. If you have something you to add to a page just go ahead and edit it.\\
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 I have 30GB of storage available to this server right now so there is tons of space here. Don't worry about space concerns right now, I can easily add more storage if needed. Worst case scenario I just start hosting more media on my own local servers and I have a ton of storage space available locally.
-To add pictures to the site you have a few options. The easiest option is just to copy the image into the editor with "ctrl+v". If you're using chrome you'll need to hit the checkbox beneath the editor for "**turn supplementary image paste support on**" first though.
+To add pictures to the site you have a few options. The easiest option is just to copy the image into the editor with "ctrl+v". If you're using chrome you'll need to hit the checkbox beneath the editor for "**turn supplementary image paste support on**" first though.\\
+Once you have pasted the image you should see it within the editor. You can then right-click on it to edit the size it's displayed as or the place where it is located.
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 The second way is to manually upload images or add images that are already uploaded. There is a little image icon within the editor that you can use to add the images:
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-That will open up a page that looks like this. From there you can browse the server for existing images and select them, or upload them manually.
+**That will open up a page that looks like this. From there you can browse the server for existing images and select them, or upload them manually.**
 {{:user_guides:ba29bd5aefcb5a7f50ea78a50fd78f1c.png}}
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+====== Videos ======
+I have added a plugin that lets you embed videos from other sites onto wiki pages. You can throw youtube videos on here or probably any other site too.\\
+I'm not as concerned about hosting videos on this server. Images are a lot smaller and easier to deal with, but I don't really have space for videos right now. They can get pretty large.
+To add a video you'll have to throw a bit of code down right now.
+{{:user_guides:30a2684f6556646fbedaacdea683bf83.png}}
+The video ID is what you place after the "youtube>" piece. You can find that in the URL of the browser when you're looking at a youtube video
+{{:user_guides:2118fd695bd58092cb4badcd00b00273.png}}
+To use other sites you might need to reference the bottom of this page: [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:vshare|https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:vshare]]
+Here's an example of what it might look like though:
+{{youtube>mfkU0HO5U1k}}
+====== General Website Information ======
+This website uses **Dokuwiki **as its wiki platform to help make this easier to use and edit. [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/|https://www.dokuwiki.org/]]\\
+If there are things you would like to see changed on the website then let me know and I can see what I can do.
+If you're looking for more information about what's possible on the site with dokuwiki and the way formatting is done or themes are created, the dokuwiki website will have more information. I can always edit the code though to change little things here and there too.
+It is currently hosted in AWS on a "free-tier" EC2 instance. It doesn't have a ton of system resources, but it has 30gb of disk space. The free-tier will only last for 12 months. After that AWS wants something like $90/year to keep the same server going. At that point I will probably just host things locally on one of my spare computers and throw a ton of disk space at it.
+I'm monitoring this website with my work's software. It's basically google analytics on super steroids.\\
+If you want to see some data around site traffic this page has a quick dashboard you can view without signing in. [[https://zkp73151.sprint.dynatracelabs.com/dashboards/a2e7b963-3151-4d40-b03b-aeefc560a313?auth=PxNNs9wfT06grgl_mgf4w|https://zkp73151.sprint.dynatracelabs.com/dashboards/a2e7b963-3151-4d40-b03b-aeefc560a313?auth=PxNNs9wfT06grgl_mgf4w]]