GoE Labs: How-To!,How-To, Standardized Template and Notes

Well, This How-To is really for myself. Really it's a 'cheat sheet' and some notes

Should you find it useful be my guest, and adjust to your own tastes as needed.

I tend to want a consistent look and feel of things, and I think anyone who uses my How-Tos can appreciate what to expect. (and I don't forget what I did the last time)
Naming is a thing I've found that can Help in sorting browsing and most of all finding what you're looking for, so I have a general guide to help be consistent .

From time to time I'll be tweaking things here as the situation arises, and the need comes up. I tend to document these things, especially when there is a good chance it'll bee needed again.

There is a copy and paste template to start things off a little further down, just copy the section and paste it into a new blog, and you'll get a place to start from.

Naming your How To also useful for 'TAGS'

(What is in a Name ?):
This will give us a way to sort and categorize any or all of the 'How-To's and make it easier for everyone to browse and find things.

TAG NOTEs: When doing tags you can use " " marks to enclose words into a single entry:
if you wanted the search to be "Laser Vortex" and you did not use the quotes you'd wind up with 2 search phrases Laser and Vortex respectively.
Multiple items can be used in the Tag fields just seperate them with comas. So for this post I'd use [ How-To, howto, "Standard How-To", Template, "GoE Labs" ] .. and probably some other variations to make it easier to search for and find what Is wanted.

In general Start off with 'How-To,' then go from a more general category and work your way to a more specific one.

How-To	Buckey / Blucky
	Lighting
	Lasers
	Prop
	Foam
	Food
	Drinks
	Pnumantic
	Electric
	Mechanical
	Illuson
	Fog

Say you want to do a write up on a Trashcan Trauma. You could name it as follows:
How-To, Pnumatic, Trashcan Trauma, ....[anything else you want].....

General Format

The Top of the Document

Picture of the finished Project
Description of your project, general narative

Parts List

SAMPLE

---

Scroll Saw
Item	Qty	$$$$$	Description
1	? ea	$0.99 set	guitar string
2	1 ea	$ 9.99.	1 in stock aluminum bar 1/8 thick 6 foot
3	1 ea	$ 3.00	3/8 B-C Plywood, 2' x 20 in

---

Copy and Paste Code for Parts List This will give you the general structure for the Parts list table above, comments are included in <!-- Comment here --> These will not show up in your post !

<!--- Begin Copy here --->
<!--- This is the Header defining the Table format and color colors --->
<hr/><center><table border="1" bgcolor="#808080"> <!--- The Title Section of the Parts List ---> <tr><th colspan="4" align="center"> <b>Scroll Saw</b> </th> </tr> <!--- Column Headings ---> <tr><th><u>Item</u></th> <th><u>Qty</u></th> <th><u>$$$$$</u></th> <th><u>Description</u></th> </tr>

<!--- Part List Section --->

<!--- Part No 1 --->
<tr><td> 1 </td>
<td>1 ea</td>
<td>$ 0.00</td>
<td>Text Describing</td>
</tr>

<!--- Repeat Part No sections as needed --->
<!--- 3 are shown here as an example, but could be many --->

<!--- Part No 2 --->
<tr><td> 2 </td>
<td></td>
<td>$ </td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<!--- Part No 3 --->
<tr><td> 3 </td>
<td></td>
<td>$ </td>
<td></td>
</tr>

<!--- End of Part List Section --->

<!--- Close the List --->
</table>
</center>
<hr/>

<!--- End of Code copy--->

<h2>Step headings:</h2>

Describing the steps with words and pictures

<b>NOTE:</b><i>Inline Notes too!</i>

<h3> Sub Step headings</h3>

Occasionally you will need to add some detail at a certain point, use the sub steps sparingly !
Sometimese we need a list of things so we can bullet them, very useful if there are a lot of steps


<small><ul>

• <li>
• <li> item </li>
• <li> The really nice thing about lists like this is that they will wrap text around and still maintain the indentationn that sets them apart from a plain text section. So you can have many things bulleted, bute still be able to differentiate each </li>
• <li> item </li>

</ul></small>