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The address bar is the part of your browser where you type a web address ( or called URL) and hit ENTER to go to a website.
In wikidot.com you can create a new page by typing in the whole web...
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a category (in a wiki often called namespace) is under normal circumstances known as the first part of the page name - the partial name before the colon (:) in the page name. You will...
Cascading Style Sheets.
In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common...
The HTML <div> tag defines a division/section in a document.
It is used to group block-elements to format them with styles.
Sample of use in Wikidot:
[[div style="line-height:...
Frequently Asked Questions. Hopefully, also Frequently Answered Questions with the Wikidot Community.
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Firefox.
"The award-winning Web browser is now even faster, more secure, and fully customizable to suit your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online...
Internet Explorer.
The Windows built-in Web browser. IE6 and IE7 might not render perfectly some wikidot sites.
FF seems to be preferred by the Wikidot Community.
Anyway, IE is available at...
An wikidot Infobox is a combined use of a template at page creation with an included preformatted infobox which is filled dynamically by passing parameters, such as lastname, firstname,...
Internet Protocol
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IP address
A user's IP address is a unique number that identifies the user's computer on the internet. It is used like an mailing address and since it is unique to the person using it, it can be...
Michal
Michal Frackowiak is the owner and developer of wikidot. Michal's personal wiki is located here.
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Tags are now a common and useful web2.0 feature. Do not overcloud !
o·ver·cloud (ō'vər-kloud')
v., -cloud·ed, -cloud·ing, -clouds.
v.tr.
1. To cover with clouds.
2. To make dark and...
Private Message.
You can send a private message to a wikidot user by clicking on its buddy icon and follow the invite "write private message".
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Red Green Blue are the primary colors to be added to display any other color.
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Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. A way to publish sites or forum updates. External RSS feeds may be included in wikidot pages with the Feed module. Internal RSS feeds associated to...
The HTML <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.
It is used to group inline-elements to format them with styles.
Sample of use in Wikidot:
This is a sample paragraph...
A Wikidot template page is a predefined page for easy and quick creation of pages which will have the same format. Subsequent changes of a template do NOT affect the previously created pages.
This...
Three Letter Acronym
Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA. People who like this looser usage argue that not all TLAs have three letters, just...
User Interface. Current Wikidot User Interface is only available in English and Polish. The expected Wikidot 2.0 will have better "internationalization + language packs + a way to create...
Uniform Resource Locator is the short generic name of all the web adresses we can use in the address bar.
Also Universal Resource Locator.
The URL of this article is...
A wikidot user usually signs his(her) posts/pages with his(her) user name like this : [[*user UserName]], e.g. gerdami
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Visual Basic for Applications. A programming language used to customize Microsoft Office Applications.
VBA is used by this HowTo:import-simple-excel-tables-into-wikidot.
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widg.et - n. a portable chunk of the web. pl. widgets.
Mini-application that can be embedded into a wikidot page with the [[embed]]...[[/embed]] tags.
While Yahoo! uses the term widget, Google...
The web building software you've always dreamed of.
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