Creating a timeline using whenintime
A picture is worth a thousand words. At whenintime.com we believe this applies to time-based data (e.g. historical facts). Using tools developed by whenintime.com you can view, explore and created highly interactive timelines on the topic of your choice. This article walks you through the steps for creating a timeline
2) You will be asked to login. Enter your user id and password to login. If you do not have an account you can click on the Register link and follow the instructions to create an account
3) Once logged in you should see the Create Timeline page. You can start creating the timeline now
1) Enter a Title for your timeline (e.g. “Wars in Italy”)
2) The second field represents the URL for your timeline. It will be auto-generated based on your timeline title but you can modify it. Please note that once the timeline is created you will not be able to change it.
3) Enter a brief description for your timeline
4) If you want you can upload an image for your timeline from your computer or you can provide an URL to an image. Please note that images are optional
5) Next you can select who you want the timeline to be visible to. You can keep the timeline private or share it with everyone or with a selected group of people
6) Similarly you can choose who can edit your timeline with additional data
7) You can choose to allow others to be able to copy your timeline or you can disable that
At this stage you are done providing the basic information for your timeline.
At this stage you have an empty timeline. You can now edit the timeline details by clicking on the “Edit Timeline” link on the left hand side or you can click on “Add Events” to start adding events to your timeline.
There are multiple ways to add events to your timeline.
1) You can enter events one at a time
2) You can use a RSS feed to import events on your timeline
3) You can copy events from an existing wheintime timeline
4) You can upload events using a text file in a specific format
This article will cover entering events one at a time
To do so click on “Add Events” on the previous screen
On this webpage you can enter the details of the event for your timeline. Only the event title and event year are mandatory on this form. Everything else is optional.
Upon clicking “Add Event” this event will get added to your timeline
At this stage your timeline has one event. You can add more events by clicking on the “Add Event” link
The timeline details will be visible once you move your mouse over the event.
Editing events is straightforward as well. You can do so by clicking on “Edit Events” link from the left hand side menu and following the instructions.
To preview your timeline click on the “Preview Timeline” link. This will open a new web page. Below is a screen shot of what this page would look like.
