The process of creating
a wiki how page has been an interesting experience with plenty of ups and downs. First off, the idea of coming up with a topic that no one else at this
point has come up presents its giant set of difficulties and took a decent
amount of time alone without having to do anything else to this point in the process.
Once the topic was
picked, what proved best to go step by step through topic to explain it
accurately was personal experience. Since the topic at hand was How to Best
Lease a Car, with my profession being in car sales, this seemed the best option
to go forward with. Yes, there is a process which was gone over in the article,
but nothing helped more than personal experiences and knowledge of the industry
over the 2 plus years living in it.
As there were many steps
to this project it was somewhat difficult to procure pictures for each
individual step. The most difficult being for example was credit scores. This
is something that you can’t just take a picture of or share since it is
personal information. So, the need to go online and find a good diagram of this
was needed to ensure a picture was available. Also, it was quite difficult to
get pictures inside the dealership. Given the time of the month, it was quite
busy inside the dealership. Finding people and time to be able to find a person
and a space to use was difficult. At the end of the day it was successful and felt
great to get the pictures and get that much closer to finishing the assignment.
One of the biggest
challenges with this topic was how to order the steps for the leasing process.
At first the idea was to have it in two parts. The first part being research and
figuring out personal financing, the second was going to be dealership
interaction. At the end of the day though, the decision was made to just unify
it all and make it one giant process rather than 2. This made it much easier to
order.
It was also quite
difficult to have to figure out a way to accurately try and explain the process
since each car lease is entirely unique. Everyone has a different credit score,
money to put down and car price to work with which makes not every single
situation the same. Alas it was figured out and can be seen present in the
final product on the Wiki How page.
One of the most
interesting things about this Wiki How assignment was learning how to code it.
First and foremost, it was interesting that coding was even necessary. One
would figure all that would need to be done would be to write, paste or copy
things into a text box and hit submit. But alas, that is not the case. Coding
must be done to ensure that the page looks and functions properly as well as to
ensure everything is in the right spot and formatted correctly. Learning this
is interesting. Its nowhere near as complicated as one would suspect. Once the
needed words, characters and the like are learned its actually very simple,
just extremely time consuming. It is a unique experience and something to
recommend for most people who wish to create an online presence to try out at
least once.
For the page pictures
were required. Another unique experience that pertains to this, learning how to
use Adobe Photoshop, abet very basically. Learning that for the pictures to
function properly you first need to shoot them in landscape mode was
interesting but makes sense, since the other way would distort and stretch the picture.
It was also cool to learn that the pictures needed to be a certain dimension to
work on Wiki How and it was nice to learn how simple and easy that way to fix
and do on Photoshop itself.
It was also nice to
learn how to change the contrast and other unique characteristics of the
pictures in Photoshop. It is surprising how daunting this all seems at first
but once you know where everything is, it is extremely simple and user friendly
to finalize the pictures.
One giant concern has
been that once published the readers won’t understand or think that the article
in question doesn’t need to exist. Worse would be for the general public to feel
as if the Wiki How article didn’t help at all or was just rambling. It was
created to be an assistance tool and the hope is that at least one person who
reads it will feel as if their leasing experience was somewhat aided by the
fact that they read this article.
https://www.wikihow.com/Get-the-Best-Deal-on-a-Car-Lease
https://www.wikihow.com/Get-the-Best-Deal-on-a-Car-Lease
