in wikispaces, you may find that changing from one type of formatted text to another is not as intuitive as it could be. And, as you may want some fancier formatting and interactions, the visual editor tool bar may not have the features you wish. Similar to when I use HTML tools like Dreamweaver, I always need to go into the HTML code to tweak things a bit (Maybe its just the geek in me).
There is a markup language behind the content you produce on wiki pages. To see it, click the Text Editor on the Visual Editor tool bar. If you are expecting the standard HTML tags, you will be surprised. Wikispaces has its own "markup Language" called wikitext.
Referring to the wikispaces help, there is topic entitled wikitext having 6 sub-topics
- Text Formatting
- Links and Anchors
- Images, Files, and Tables
- Media, RSS, and Special Tags
- Variables
- Includes
Text formatting would be a good start to explore, and may not be needed as much because the Visual Editor has all this basic functionality. But as you move down the list, the visual editor will not have these features which for the most part makes the pages more user friendly, gives multimedia (MM) functionality, and helps in back end management of pages.
I suggest you explore the formatting tags a bit. If you have worked with HTML, it will be a quick learning curve. As you find the importance of using MM and embedding external content on the wiki pages, the advance topics will increase in importance.
As always, comments welcomed.
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