Tips and tricks to spruce Tips and tricks to spruce up your wikiup your wiki

lynne gibb 2009

Today’s AgendaToday’s Agenda

• Add a table of contents

• Embed your powerpoint or other multimedia

• Create & embed navigation buttons

Working with CSS to add colour & variety•Change heading colour &

style•Coloured table borders or

no borders•Javascript? Easy-peasy!•Change background colour

Your questions??

Useful websites for wikisUseful websites for wikis

Basic wiki tips http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index http://wikitips.coonarahouse.org.au

Advanced Wiki tips & code http://www.wikispaces.com/message/list/home Wikispaces discussion forum http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index Wikispaces Help http://gettingtrickywithwikis.wikispaces.com javascript code for just about anything! http://slideshare.net To upload powerpoints http://wny-plp.wikispaces.com http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorsafe.html Hexadecimal colour codes http://cooltext.com Button generator http://ementor.coonarahouse.org.au (Click on the wikis link to find all manner of useful

things about wikis) http://www.grsites.com/textures Free backgrounds http://www.entheosweb.com/fireworks/background1.asp More backgrounds

Thank you!Thank you!

lynne gibblynne@coonarahouse.org.au

ementor.coonarahouse.org.au

Slide background design by Emily Fitzgerald

I hope this has whetted your appetite to spruce up your wikis!