<span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>

General Business

We want the world, or at least the genre world, to know what we're up to here and we hope you'll not only come here and check us out and contribute an Article or two or twenty. We hope you'll see a mistake and correct it. We hope that you'll tell all your friends that there's something any self-respecting genre fan will feel the need to be part of from the beginning and forever. Think about the props you'll get from the folks who you turn on to SCIFIPEDIA. You can say you were in at the start and you can even spend your time teaching your new recruits all about wiki formatting – as long as I keep cranking out my instructional bits so you can stay ahead of the learning curve of your friends.

Formatting

Text – italic, bold, bold italic. You're going to need to know how to do these type formats. We recommend italics for all book, movie and TV series titles. We recommend bold for all Article names included in the first sentence of the Article itself, unless they are themselves a book, movie or TV series title in which case they should be bold italic.

How do you do that? Again, easy. Italic requires a double straight apostrophe on each end of whatever you want to italicize. bold requires a triple straight apostrophe on each end of whatever you want to bold and bold italic requires a quintuple (that's five) straight apostrophe on each end of whatever you want to bold italicize.

Thus:

''italic'' produces italic

'''bold''' produces bold

'''''bold italic''''' produces bold italic

Learn these and remember them. You'll probably use each of them many times whenever you work on SCIFIPEDIA.

Today's shout-out

Matthew C. If Craig E. had the plan, Matthew C. was the one with the vision. He was the design manager for the page and what you see is largely a result of his direction and thinking. He was also very nice to the word-oriented types like me who can’t often comment meaningfully on nuances of visual style and he made sure to leave lots of room for all those words.

Thought for the day

I don't know much about design but I can always tell you when I think something doesn't look right – even if I can't necessarily tell you what exactly is wrong or how to fix it.