Here is how to make a help file on this webpage.

Everyone in the  lab can use these pages to  share knowledge and learn
new tips and tricks to make our work as researchers easier and faster.
If you have learned something new and wonderful, its likely that other
people in the lab can benefit from it.  Please put the information
on this page.  Here's how.

On one of the computers in our lab:

Create a text or HTML formatted file (eg newtip.html) and put it in:

/usr/local/apache/www/lab

If you have multiple files perhaps you should create a directory
for them.  There is a directory for images.

Edit the file: index.html   This is an HTML formatted file



Duplicate one of the lines which begins with <li>  
For example make 2 of the line:

<li><a href="idl_background_jobs.txt">
IDL Background Jobs</a> - <i>
<font  face="Arial, Helvetica" size=-1 >Peter Driscoll</font></i></li> 

Edit the  2nd, newer line to reflect your new addition's filename and content.

Example:

<li><a href="newtip.html">
Newest IDL Tip</a> - <i>
<font  face="Arial, Helvetica" size=-1 >Grad Student</font></i></li> 

Save the file index.html.  Make sure not to erase or remove the old tips.
If you are not confident, you can first save a backup of index.html
before editing the live version.