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second row buttons explanation
On the top you can see three tabs. The first one is the editing view you are already in. This view is for the raw text that will be displayed on the page after you save it. The next tab is to preview the changes you just made without actually saving them. The third tab shows you how the version of the article you are writing differs from the one that was saved before. Of course, in case of a new article, it won't show you much.
Moving down to the second row, this is the part that probably the most useful. Here you can change the formatting of selected text much like you would inside a desktop word processor. Apart from the '''B'''old and ''I''talics buttons, the second row also contains a number of very useful buttons. You can see them labelled below. [[File:Edit window second bar.png|framed|center]] A - Adds your signature. This is useful for commenting in the Talk pages, since you don't need to write your nickname and make a link to your profile every time you are commenting something. During the editing, you will see the signature as a number of non-descriptive characters. But don't worry, these will get replaced by your signature and a link to your profile upon saving the page. B - Inserts a link, either a local wiki link to an article here, or an external link that leads to somewhere on the Internet. The Insert link form has two fields. The <code>Target page or URL:</code> and the <code>Text to display:</code>. This allows you to customize how the link will appear in an article. If you only fill in the first field, the link will appear as the full URL, e.g. http://hcenat.zcu.cz/wiki/index.php. If you fill in the second field two, the long URL will get replaced by the text you put in, but the link will functionally stay the same, e.g. [http://hcenat.zcu.cz/wiki/index.php HCE Wiki]. You may have also noticed the little blue arrows on the right side of the links. These indicates that they are external links and lead outside of the wiki. A local link, that goes to an article that is on this very wiki, does not have the little arrow. Example: [[Smartglasses]]. The wiki will take care of forming a proper HTML link for the article, so you don't have to worry about copying the URL from your Internet browser's address bar.
