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Sagre.it

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:00:46 +0000

http://www.sagre.it/

Source cannot be seen. I like it. Especially the first picture on the front page… :D

Captain Barefoot's Naturist Guide to Greek Islands

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:51:04 +0000

http://www.barefoot.info/greekgde.html

Source cannot be seen. A lot of Wikidot features and CSS, and I really like the subject of the site.

Redesigning a site... opinions? suggestions?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:27:44 +0000

Please take a look at my new look for HaveMyCV.com and let me know what you think.

http://www.havemycv.com/test:css

Just click on any internal link to see what it currently looks like.

Any opinions welcome. I've been staring at it for so long now; I don't know what looks ok and what doesn't!

Lider Plus

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:21:19 +0000

http://www.liderplus.com.pl/

I am amazed. I thought it was not Wikidot site, since it doesn't look like wiki at all…

I suggest this site for Featured Site for various reasons.

Language is other than English
It is excellent example of what can be done with Wikidot — it looks like a real professional site, and not like wiki at all…

The source is now viewable.

Restricting access to wiki by IP address

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:44:20 +0000

HI
is it possible to restrict access to a wiki by the users IP address ie just one ip address?
cheers
Jon

how to embed an applet

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:32:53 +0000

I need an easy to follow guidelines in how to insert an applet. Thank You.

Syntax Changes

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:42:14 +0000

I am not sure, but I think that the line Tags dated 2008-07-28 links to wrong page. It links to documentation on includes and not on tags…

UMass Amherst EGO

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:29:28 +0000

http://www.umassenglishgrad.com/

I like this site very much. It is so simple and neat, and yet very informative. It uses widely wiki syntax and I would say that someone also played with CSS, too…

What do you think?

collapsible text

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Hello
I have been trying to create a collapsible text block for a list of links I have on my page but
I cannot find a step by step tutorial on how to do that.
I would realy appreciate it if someone could help me please!

Regards Zak

wikidot mentioned!!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:34:15 +0000

thanks to that snowlepoard site that caused so many problems, Wikidot has been mentioned on some well known sites!! first of all on Engaget there is a link to Tuaw.com and thats where the real fun begins! take a look here

HTTP 404

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:15:54 +0000

every download link shows me the message of the HTTP 404 error

title font family

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:47:51 +0000

Hello,

I cannot find a way to change the font of page titles. Here is the corresponding part of the sheet:

 {/* === title === */ #page-title{ font-family: "DejaVu Serif", serif; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0; padding-top: 0.5em; /* Firefox bug? */ border-bottom: 1px solid #666; font-weight: bold; color: #33707F; font-size: 244%; } /* === headers === */ h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{ font-family: "DejaVu Serif", serif; font-weight: normal; color: #33707F; padding-top: 0.3em ; padding-bottom: 0em ; margin-bottom: 0em ; }

The font family definition works for headers, not for title. You can see the result at spir

I take the opportunity to ask about a constant issue on wikidot sites: that page vertical "rolling" is extremely slow. (whatever the method: keyboard arrows, mouse roll, side bar). The same by you?

thanks,
Denis

The advanced forum and the ordering of threads.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:13:41 +0000

Am surprised it has taken me this long to notice this. For the new "advanced forum" to work as much like the real forum we really need ListPages to be able to order pages by "commented_at desc". The threads would then be ordered by most recent post.

I suppose this is more of a feature request but seems weird that LP can't already do this.

ALSO: I have edited the forum slightly. The section page now displays the threads a little more like the original forum. An example can be see here and the instructions on how to install my variation can be found here. Please be aware that I'm always tweaking this to suit. Let's call it a beta :)

remove wikidot website

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:42:24 +0000

Hi,

How do I remove a wikidot website? I want to clone a website and use the name of my old wikidot website

Remove image link?

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:33:17 +0000

Hi,

Does anyone know how I can remove a link from a image? When I upload an image onto my site, it automatically has a link to the file, please could you help me to remove this?

Many thanks

website design tools?

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:00:29 +0000

Do you use website design tools like http://kompozer.net/ for making your wikidot websites?

a nice homepage....

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:37:36 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to have something like http://www.wikidot.com/ has on the frontpage of your wikidot page? I mean the flash/picture

Flagging as objectionable

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:04:09 +0000

Who gets notified if a page is flagged as objectionable, WikiDot admins or the wiki's admins?

Menu Problems

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00:11 +0000

Hi,

I've created a drop down menu with the following link:

 * [[[forum:start]]]

Please could you let me know how I could rename it from displaying 'start' on the menu to 'Discussion Forum'

Thanks

All contents of a page disappear

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:52:39 +0000

The 18th revision of the page http://robo24wolverine.wikidot.com/rss-feeds caused everything on the page to disappear. There's no wikidot structure around it, there's no buttons at the bottom of the page, there's no menu at the top of the page, there's nothing left. Is there some way to get back to the previous revision?

Thanks for any help you might provide.

for perpage discussions minirecentpost now points to the discussed page instead of forum

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:27:54 +0000

this was a good idea, but the problem is, for pages that dont have the comment module on them, now you have to scroll down and click on the discusses link instead of going directly to the thread that you wanted to go to in the first place. maybe you could make it to go to the page only if the is a comments module on it.

Listing orphaned pages with parameters

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:22:48 +0000

Is it possible? I want to list orphaned pages from a certain category, but I want to exclude certain pages from that category that have a certain tag.

world wind java sdk - alternative to google

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:19:23 +0000

i'm trying to load an sdk in my wiki and I'm not sure where to start. Is there a way to load an sdk to wikidot? Thank You.

http://eastenclave.wikidot.com/home

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:12:18 +0000

I am new to wiki. I am making a site for our housing complex at Calcutta. Kindly look at the site:
http://eastenclave.wikidot.com/home
where I want to replace the Header: "East Enclave Co-op Hou Soc Ltd." by the image:
EastEnclaveHead.gif
which is the image in green and purple. At present I am using this code

[[=image EastEnclaveHead.gif size="large"]]

but naturally its not working. I need to know how to change the header. thanks a lot
Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna
moc.liamg|annam.uhsgnarhbus#moc.liamg|annam.uhsgnarhbus

View source of any page.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:41:29 +0000

Is there a way to view the source of a page that doesn't show the option to? i.e. if the top navi-bar is removed and page-options are not enabled. My thinking is that there is something that can be added to the URL (like for edit/true) or keyboard shortcut. Or is this unavailable to protect users' content? Yay / nay?

Application unistall unsuccessful

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:56:58 +0000

Hello Everybody,
I purchased dxTop from this site, I downloaded the file .apk, I tried to install it but the error "Application unstall unsuccessful" occured. I tried also to follow the FAQ "I purchased dxTop for the website but when I download it to my phone it says the file isn't supported" but the error occurs again. Could you help me to solve this bug, please? My phone is HTC Dream TIM (Italy).

Many Thanks and best regards.

PDF attachments don't have options

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:16:43 +0000

OK. I have attachments in PDF at my private site, but the thing is, when I click to options, nothing happens, so I cannot do anything with them — I cannot rename them, move them or delete them. They are just there and that's it. What should I do?

editing top portion of the page

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:30:44 +0000

I want to replace the top portion of my site with a specific background image. Is there a way to edit the top portion and underlay a background image.?

Inserting a google map

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:44:34 +0000

my application requires an interactive mapping so that a user can not only browse around but also to be able to place a geospatial object (icon) onto the map. Has someone done any work integration of google map or similar to their wikis or other website? I need some direction in where to start or how this is done. Thank You.

creating a navigation running page display

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:37:24 +0000

I've seen this running page display on other's wikis and I want to do the same.:
e.g. W e l c o m e ! » Getting Help » Menu
Can someone provide details in how this is done? I need the codes. Thank You.

Data form module and ListPages

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:19:44 +0000

First off, any idea when the data form module will be completed?

Secondly, will ListPages be able to extract parts of it? Because currently, this is what happens if you use %%content%%… http://onlyjoking.wikidot.com/_test

Is there a way to edit other than by clicking an edit button?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:57:44 +0000

I have a private site (corner.wikidot.com), set up with just a few friends on it.

One of them mentioned on Monday that she couldn't edit pages, because there's no edit button. I thought it was user error, and tried talking her through it, but as she explains it to me, there's literally no buttons at the bottom of pages from "edit" over to "+options". No words, no links, no nothing. She's got the "Powered by Wikidot.com — wikis and collaborative web projects for all!" line, but nothing else down there at the bottom.

I still kinda thought it was user error, until today. My wife (not the person who first reported the problem) logged in from her computer at work. From that computer, she also has no edit buttons, or anything else expected on the bottom. But from her computer at home, she does.

Two other friends who also use the wiki have no problems (that I'm aware of, both edited pages within the past week). One's on a Mac, the other a PC, so I don't think it's some sort of incompatibility issue. I haven't set either of them to be modertators, or anything like that, they've all got the same permissions.

I am using the "Glass" CSS Theme. Other than installing it, I can't think of anything I've done that could possibly be affecting or causing this. Any ideas where I should look?

Is there a way to edit a page without clicking on the edit button at the bottom of the page? Maybe some sort of work-around I can have them use?

New User wants to create Offline Wiki

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:47:33 +0000

I would like to create an offline wiki for my own use. Is this possible and what resources should I consider? Thank you.

I am a tech support professional who dabbles in fictional world creation and wants to use the WIKI format to create a user-friendly database, principally for my own use.

I have used the WIKI format in the well-known wikipedia website and my employer's website also uses the WIKI format. I like the relative ease-of-use and the ability to handle media like text and graphics, plus the familiarity of the browser-format.

Commented_at Formatting

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:40:20 +0000

I'm laying out a page-based forum for a (currently private) site, and I've reached a little stumbling block with commented_at — in that %%commented_at%% works, but %%commented_at|pick your format%% doesn't display anything at all, even for pages with comments. It'll give me the right %%comments%% and %%commented_by%% values, so I know it's drawing from the correct page, and %%updated_at|any given format%% works, so it's not all dates.

But then I tried the code here: http://rhapsody.wikidot.com/test:listpages… and everything worked fine. Apparently I can't duplicate the bug on a public page. I've since tried a few more permutations in the original buggy page, including copying code back out of the demonstrably-working rhapsody site… and am still at a loss.

It doesn't seem to be a function of the page source, and that's about all I can figure.

Anyone else have ideas?

Layering images

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:07:21 +0000

I have a feeling there's a way to do this with CSS, but I'm unfamiliar with it, unfortunately, so I turn to you, the Wonderful Wikidot Masses:

If I upload two pictures onto a new wiki page, is it possible, with in the page, to layer them on top of one another? IE, if I have a background+border picture, and then an icon picture, is there any way to essentially make it look like the icon surrounded by the custom background/border?

Ah, I'm looking to put them inside a table. The goal will be that the pictures in the table here:

http://thewest.wikidot.com/jobs

be "on top of" this:

http://thewest.wdfiles.com/local--files/general:other/bag.png
Thanks in advance.

Ted.com video

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:40:14 +0000

Until the developers add this to the list of applications that can be embedded with [[embed]]..[[/embed]] tags, or in case they don't, ted.com videos can be embedded in your page by using a codeblock/iframe combination.

codeblock

First, put a code block on your page. As you will see it uses the code you provided:

 [!-- [[code type="html"]]     [[/code]] --]

The [[!-- and --] are comment tags that stop the codeblock being displayed on your page.

iframe

Then underneath the codeblock on the same page, add an iframe. Make sure you put your site name in the relevant space and also the page on which the codeblock and iframe are. You will see that it has /code/1 in it which is the way the iframe knows which codeblock it is looking at. If it is the first or only codeblock on your page then /code/1 is used, the second would be /code/2 and so on. The width and height are very slightly more than in the code you provided to allow the border to display properly:

 [[iframe http://YOUR SITE.wikidot.com/YOUR PAGE/code/1 frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="350px" height="335px"]]

result

This will give you the following result:

I hope that helps.

My pictures

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:01:35 +0000

http://albums.wikidot.com/start

How do you like it? I wanted a site where I can put my photos and also to be able to comment them. As well as to give the chance to visitors to comment them. Since I couldn't find any Wikidot application that meets this simple condition, I made it by myself.

I know this is not anything special in terms of programming, but I am not a CSS wizard as many of you are… I think after all, I did a good job, didn't I?

I used Rob's theme and changed a little bit in CSS, made some live templates, normal templates and includes, and that's all…

If any of you can improve it, go ahead… Personally, I think that the process of uploading and renaming the photo is a little bit complicated to a non-Wikidot user, maybe this part could be made more non-Wikidot-guru friendly…

You can see here some of my albums and how actually it looks like…
http://ciruela.wikidot.com/start

Editted Page and Now Only Template Shows

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:26:20 +0000

This has happened before to me - I'll edit a page, and when I saved the page, no content displays, only the category template. If you view the page source or attempt to edit the page, the content is still all available however.

I've deleted and recreated the page to no avail. However, if you create the page outside of a category with the same content there are no problems. Its only when you rename that page to the original category that issues arise.

The page currently causing issues is: http://westernweyr.wikidot.com/dragon:damasth

host linux packages on wikidot?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:25 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to make a ubuntu or debian repo and host the packages on wikidot ?

Thanks in advance

Active/Recent users

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:59:55 +0000

I had a bit of a search around. Can anyone confirm if you can show active/current users or recent contributors on the homepage of a wiki?

Thanks

Error saving - bug or identity theft?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:39:27 +0000

I use Internet Explorer (7, I think) and Windows Vista. I've not had the problem before yesterday. It has happened over and over since then. When I go to save edits, I get a wikidot security error that says something about enabling cookies in my browser (they are enabled) and that it could be an attempt at identity theft. This is of course worrisome. I don't have any personal information on my computer, but I know some people do, even if it's not advisable. Help? My page is: http://dragon-trees.wikidot.com/breeder:whoeverxwins I have used the coding in question (it varies), and it will save eventually. But I don't like the idea that someone could be targeting the wiki site. :(

Forum Category Creation

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:09:12 +0000

I have my Forum launched for my wiki and created the various groups for discussion. I now need to create the Categories for each group. I'm stuck here. All I have is what is shown in http://landregistryolongapo.wikidot.com/Forum:start. I need now to create the various categories under each Group. Need someone to provide a detailed guideline on how to create these Categories. Thank You.

need admin account back

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:42:14 +0000

Hi, I am a member of my site (http://nbccit.wikidot.com), however. Why am i not admin?..i created the site. Now i cannot configure it etc etc.

Can someone please make me admin again of my site

i am nbccit. and my site is http://nbccit.wikidot.com

thankyou very much.

Listpages Module

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:48:21 +0000

The idea is that the official doc could link to a new helpon: category here, in order to avoid direct helpdesk on the documentation official website, but drive the traffic here.

Action:

create http://www.wikidot.com/doc:_template (Yes, currently there is no _template, héhé)
add the following code

 [http://community.wikidot.com/helpon:%%name%% >> Get Community help on %%name%% <<]

iframe not executing the command

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:21:26 +0000

iframe http://landregistryolongapo.wikidot.com/local--files/test-page/code.html width="100%" height="500px" frameborder="0"

I have the code.html already uploaded to the page. When I edited the page and inserted the iframe statement, it simply prints out the same line on the screen exactly as shown with enclosing [[ ]] brackets. Is there something missing? Need help.

Uploading an html file to a webpage

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:35:41 +0000

I have a file that I named googlecode.html that I created on Notepad. I need to call and execute this code at a particular page but first, I have to upload it somehow directly to the page. Can someone provide me a detailed instruction on how to upload a saved file on my computer to a specific page on my wiki?

dateCreatedDesc module layout

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:32:05 +0000

I would like ot finess the dateCreatedDesc module a little
[[module Pages order="dateCreatedDesc" limit="5" ]]

This is in the side bar of oldoban.wikidot.com
and I would like it to show up in bold, with a different heading and with the list of pages indented

it is now :-
Recent Changes to Old Oban Website
religion
1800s
1900s
County Hospital

I would like
New Old Oban Pages
*religion
*1800s
*1900s
*County Hospital

and then something similar with "dateEditedDesc"
but saying
Recently Edited Pages
etc

Text colors

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:40:23 +0000

Oh how I have searched for two things please oh please;
1- How do you change the text color of a heading on a page? No buttons allow it so I suppose it needs to be done in code or CSS? Very lost.

and oh please!

2- Am I better of loading photos etc to Flickr and just linking or does Wikidot actually give me space for uploads. And please then how much and how do i link.

My brain must be going soft.
Thanks
Dan

The Future

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:57:59 +0000

Hi all,

It seems to me because of its very nature there must be many people on Wikidot that are really interested in the future in one way or another.

I have had a bit of a look through Wikidot and found a few sites with a few discussions about the future, but no really active wiki or central point where you can go to have a discussion about the future and things that may effect it.

I have started a wiki called surprisingly enough The Future and I have made it my mission to try and track down interested Wikidotians and get them talking to each other. Not much info on the site or many members yet, but I am going to do my best to the the conversation humming. If you are interested please join me and whoever else turns up for a chat.

Regards,

Wayne.

About templates

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:40:34 +0000

Hi all!

I'm still quite new here and there are some tricks that I'm not yet familiar with so this time I'd like to ask you about templates. If I've understood their purpose correctly, it seems that they could fit my needs well. I have different musical exercises on my site and I would like them all to appear in a certain similar way. Could this be automated using the templates somehow? The number of exercises will vary in different sections.

The exercises should follow this format in this order:

textual instructions on how to carry out the exercise
a sound example
a centered title of the exercise
musical notation (.png image, width shrinked to 690px, a bigger view opened in new tab when clicked)
who made the exercise (user-icon, for example jjs) on the right

Example of this can be found here: http://trumpetexercises.wikidot.com/example

Thanks for any advice!

iframe/javascript help

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:52:28 +0000

im trying to learn javascript, so I did the iframe thing to test some code. The code works fine in IE8 and Chrome, but for some reason in FF nothing happen and it just ask if want to print the page. Does anyone know why this is happening?

unwished blank lines

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:34:27 +0000

Hello,

How to get rid of these forced blank lines after headlines and before lists — and adjust space freely using CSS margin/padding parameters? I set both bottom padding and margin to 0, which changed nothing in rendering.
I could not find anything in default/base CSS. Eg for h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 only font family seems to be defined.

Who can help with this AJAX - errors on FAQ-site ?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:44:58 +0000

On the Frequently Asked Questions - Site there is a faq - which needs answers:

I'm getting AJAX errors editing a page

Can someone help ?
( I never mention such AjAX errors - and when I get these - they do not disturb me in my work - I always click on save a second or third time ( or on EDIt ) and nothing terrible ahd happen.

Can't sign in from Wikidot main page

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:40:31 +0000

I'm unable to sign in (or create an account) from http://www.wikidot.com/

I'm using Firefox 3.5.3. It doesn't really bother me, I can sign in from my own site for example but just wanted you to know that I noticed this. I think it's a bigger problem for those who don't have an account and would like to create one.

My own theme...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:54:42 +0000

Hello
could someone tell me how I can make my own theme?
I just don't get it.

Thanks

Marlies K

Suggested Featured site

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:23:44 +0000

the suggested-website.wikidot.com url: www.remnantz.wikidot.com
the wikidot features used a wide variety of coding has been used on this site, tabs, calendar, css, imagery code, pagelist, directories, site maps, templates etc.
whether the source is viewable Source is viewable
the language of the wiki: english

Why it should be featured: As a beginner wiki lay person I was lost and would just wander sites looking at what others did and take bits and pieces to create my site. It might be a bit egotistical to suggest my own site but I would like to share what I have done so that those who feel inexperienced with the wiki's can see what they can do by gleaning coding from other sites and the community how-to. I created my site with the help of everyone on wiki and would like to share also what I have done with combinding a wide variety of features. There is such a wide variety of things that can be done to develop out a website that a beginner can do with just seeing something they like first. I dont know css so the site is limited in design.