The Basics of Editing in Source Mode
Due to influx of new editors and the steadily insufficient level of skill of old ones I have taken it upon myself to explain how I make all these “spiffy” posts. With the data introduced here you will be able to make decent-looking contributions to Wikia pages.
In my experience, the most effective way of editing anything beyond simple text is in Source mode as it grants direct access to the coding of the text. Visual mode does not display all of the coding and may conceal notable errors. Also, some of the functions have a long loading time.
Another notable advantage is that the entire page can be pre-coded in a normal text editor (like I’m doing now in MS Word) and copy-pasted directly into source mode. It will function. But when pasting int…