User talk:Josepheberhard

Hello Coach Eberhard! Thank you for all your contributions! I also appreciate the new thread you made on DemiDec Talk encouraging other coaches to contribute and I really look forward to seeing all the new content. :)

You made just one small mistake, though - we want to make school pages on actual pages, not templates. Template pages start with "Template"; for example, "Template: California". Any content you put in a template page appears on ALL other pages that link to that template. You link to a template with double curled brackets: {{ }} So placing content in Template:Alice High School or "Template:Alice" will place that same content on every page with "Alice High School" or "Alice" inside curled brackets. We want to use the "Alice" inside of curled brackets as a link to the page "Alice High School" (I created it for you here: Alice High School.)

DDSIC uses many "shorthand" templates so that instead of typing out links like this: State/California|California, I can simply put "California" inside curled brackets and the template takes care of the linking for you. The school page uses many of these shorthand templates - that's why you see "Boerne" inside of curled brackets. Notice how the Template:Boerne page contains a link like this: Boerne High School. When you type out 60+ school names in a table, you don't want to have to bother to link all of them and end all of them in "high school."

So I made an Alice template for you! This is how it works (look at this page in edit view): Alice High School

I'll also start making links to the Alice High School page in other Texas pages using the "Alice" template. I hope my explanation makes sense. Please feel free to post on my talk page if you have any questions!

-Madcap 21:49, 29 December 2010 (PST)Madcap