Template:Box portal skeleton/doc

Steps
To create a new portal on the topic "Topic" using the box portal skeleton template follow these steps:

Customization and editing
The box portal allows you to edit the portal without editing the main portal page. Simply follow the blue links to the sub pages and enter the information there. These sub-pages will be displayed on the main page.

Adding a section (box)
If you wish to add a section (box) using the regular codes, go to your portal page and simply type in:

where
 * "1" is the box title
 * "2" is the article to be linked to. This will appear right under the title bar. You may omit this parameter if you don't want an edit link to appear, but you must not omit the pipe, for example:
 * (no edit link param, note pipe still in place)
 * "3" is again the article to be linked to (this will appear as a red link until first edited), for example:
 * "4" is a link that you'd like to display at the bottom-right corner of the box. You may omit this parameter if you don't want an edit link to appear, but you must not omit the pipe, for example:
 * (no bottom-right param, note pipe still in place)
 * "4" is a link that you'd like to display at the bottom-right corner of the box. You may omit this parameter if you don't want an edit link to appear, but you must not omit the pipe, for example:
 * (no bottom-right param, note pipe still in place)
 * (no bottom-right param, note pipe still in place)

Other methods of adding a section
Other methods of adding a section are adding Template:Random portal component or Template:Random portal component with nominate. see their documentation.

Example 1
The following code:

    

results in:

Example 2
The following code:

     The following text will appear in the box. This text can be placed on    the portals main page and edited there. Or, alternately placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below.  

The following text will appear in the box. This text can be placed on the portals main page and edited there. Or, alternately placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below.

...will result in what is displayed to the immediate right. →

The exact same code, used at other portals, will create a box with the exact same content, but the colors may be completely different. This is because each portal has templates at: that add color information, and then pass all the work along to the box-header template, which composes everything into a standards-compliant and cross-browser box.
 * 1) "Portal:insertname/box-header" (e.g. )

Editing Archive for random portal component section
For a random portal component section, the random pages are stored as consecutive numbered subpages from 1 to a maximum number. To view all numbered subpages in the archive page, use Template:Numbered subpages. Just write in the archive page.

Randomized lists and elements in sections
See the random subpage template for a method to display a list of randomly selected items from a group of numbered subpages (e.g., Sustainable development). This template also can be used to randomly rotate items such as images within a section (e.g., the Philosophy of science introduction).

Changing colors
The colors of the portal can be changed in the box-header subpage. A list of colors you can use is available at Web colors, List of colors, or Wikipedia talk:Colours.