Posts Tagged With: wiki
· July 28, 2008 at 4:00 am · Web Development, Web Hosting
One of my most recent project I have been put in charge of for Lunarpages is building up a support site wiki for all of their customers to use. Now as somebody who uses WordPress for just about everything - I was skeptical about moving over to the wiki format.
I do have to say I think I am getting a grasp on how to move around, edit and customize a wiki. Thankfully, there is a lot of good help and resource information on MediaWiki’s web site. If you ever find yourself building a wiki this is one nice resource your going to be using over and over again for sure.
One of the most helpful have been the post about categories, think I have that about mastered by now. I haven’t even started looking at all the extensions though. Have any other wiki advice for me as I tackle this new project of mine?
· February 21, 2008 at 9:30 am · Free Hosting
Looking for a free place to park your wiki? The people at Wikidot.com are putting out a product that looks highly impressive. For those of you who may be outside of the Web lingo world:
A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative web sites and to power community web sites.
So here you can pickup something like yoursite.wikidot.com and get tons of awesome features. Some of them are:
- easy, clean and powerful
- allow creating interactive sites (not just static pages)
- concentrate on tools to build communities and to communicate
- no unnecessary fanciness but use modern solutions
- design to scale well up to millions of users
To see some of the sites with wikis already hosted, be sure to browse through the site too. Lots of good information is only a search away. Wikidot.com is an awesome free solution if all you need is a place to park your wiki of any shape, form or topic.
· August 5, 2006 at 3:39 pm · Online Tools
I played some this afternoon with Eurekster Swicki. I have been looking for an alternative to Google search for searching my own Web sites. Seeing that some big Web sites have been using Eurekster Swicki for a while, (Lockergnome and Tech Crunch come to mind) I thought I would give them a shot.
As far as set up and the first configurations go, that all went fast and smooth. No complaints there. Now in the department of customization?
I would rather poke myself in the eyes with sharp sticks than try to tackle that again.
I might give them a shot once they have advanced the style customizations (like the search results Web pages), but right now I would say stay far away unless you want to waste a few hours trying to figure out how to hack around with overlaying your CSS and code on top of the basic Web page results they give you.
