Site Development (new posts)

Color page: Re: Color page

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:32:32 +0000

He might mean this page.

-Ed

Color page: Re: Color page

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:49:01 +0000

Where can I find that page?

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:46:01 +0000

A clone module works cross-site too, so that means you can put the clone module directly on css.wikidot.com for the default-template. That way, you can say "click this button to get another new site!".

Can't get any easier than that! ;-)

I always use the blank-template, but it's not exactly the best choice for new Wikidot users.

Public Thanks: Re: Public Thanks

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:42:39 +0000

Last time I visited this site must have been almost 6+ months ago. Boy, has it changed since then.

Nice work!

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:13:39 +0000

158 days later, I find myself perplexed by this problem and took another go at it. Since Form Data adds weird symbols, it is impossible to use it for defining CSS, so sticking to the old way, I came up with something on the Selectors page. It's far from perfect, but it is a start.

It allows for the user to play around with CSS with relevant fore-content in it. However, it can lead to a ton of pages being created on another site (probably not a problem, seeing that Wikidot's own sandbox gets at least 1 spam page every hour), and the largest problem is that leaving the page without messing with it pops a confirmation message by Wikidot, asking if the person really wants to leave the page (since a page is technically being edited).

I'll also have to add functionality so that it can be more Wikidot-oriented rather than just being a CSS general tester.

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:57:02 +0000

Perhaps, but that particular editor gets pre-populated with whatever topic you're viewing on the W3Schools site.

Since we're trying to make this Wikidot-specific, it would be slick if we could have our own version that is specific to the Wikidot page elements. For example, taking the user to a page that has a #side-bar or #top-bar and displaying CSS to play with that is relevant to those elements.

-Ed

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:09:27 +0000

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but wouldn't a link to the existing "Try It" editor take care of what you're trying to do?

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:59:15 +0000

I have seen the Try It, and it is fantastic. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to implement it here since it uses form data and ASP which I don't know how to operate. The easiest way would be to create another site called css-sandbox or something and use Data Forms to allow the editing of CSS for particular pages.

Yes, that makes sense. As I don't know all of the ways a Wikidot site can be made, I would probably leave that page up to someone else.

It is fine (: In fact, I'll be gone the next two weeks, so you won't see much contributing from me until July after tomorrow.

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:07:56 +0000

A sandbox is a good idea. Have you seen the "Try It" editor at w3schools? It would be cool if we could have something that functions like that. The css module might be a way to implement it.

And to clarify, I think the "Create a new site" guide should focus on the CSS and have limited instruction on other Wikidot features since the main focus here is on CSS.

I'm sorry I haven't been able to spend more time here helping out. Once I get a couple of big projects behind me at work, I should be able to start contributing more.

-Ed

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:42:52 +0000

This is a good idea. I'll probably also put this in the top bar as a main idea.

Also, I'm wondering if it is worth making a sandbox or not for people to test out CSS stuff. What do you think?

Guide Pages: Re: Guide Pages

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:43:42 +0000

The only thing that jumps out at me would be a "Creating a New Wikidot Site". I think the "default" method for creating a site from the "Get a new wiki" link in our account manager is really dated now.

I step-by-step guide that explains the different methods for starting a new site and then linking to the other topics you've outlined would be a nice addition to this site.

-Ed

Guide Pages: Guide Pages

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:55:11 +0000

I'm trying to compile a list of all possible topics that can be covered in the Guide section of the site. I want to categorize them into the three categories you see on this page later, but it would be better if we knew what categories we wanted first.

I've got the following so far:

Primer (just an intro with syntax)
Selectors (Type, Class, and ID)
Selectors (Descendant, Child, Universal, Adjacent Sibling)
Attribute Selectors
Pseudo-classes/elements
Declarations
Making a Theme in Wikidot
Font
Background
Lists and Tables
Element Blocks
Positioning
Wikidot's page structure
Theme Engineering
Header
Side bar
Top bar
Wikidot Tags
Forum
Content Blocks
Multiple Wikidot Themes
Media Types
Browser Compatibility
@import
Colors

Are there any others, or are some of these redundant?

Public Thanks: Re: Public Thanks

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:05:57 +0000

I second that thanks.

Public Thanks: Re: Public Thanks

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:51:27 +0000

Thanks for the compliment, Ed! My hope is that eventually this site can become a central hub for CSS aid.

Public Thanks: Public Thanks

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:46:18 +0000

I'd like to publicly thank Timothy Foster for grabbing this site by the horns and making all of the recent contributions.

I'm watching the site, and the volume and quality of changes are outstanding.

Thanks, Timothy!

-Ed

What's your favorite quotes?: What's your favorite quotes?

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:47:52 +0000

What's your favorite quotes?

Color page: Color page

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:24:22 +0000

i just wanted to say Really Nice Job! on the Color Code page timothy!

using-themes: using-themes

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:16 +0000

Timothy,

don't forget that there is also the possibility to edit your theme via the admin in the top:nav for iron giant themes… And in my optinion is it likely that that will become the way to change your theme in the future…

HTML valid?: HTML valid?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:46:05 +0000

Context:
Let's say a person wanted to change the look of bold text… He/she needs to know how wikidot will parse the ** to HTML so that he/she can change the according selector.

It would be simple if wikidot replaced the ** with but it doesn't. It's beeing changed to . Wich is also good according to W3C HTML5 standard. They could also have chozen or .

So I thought lets make a list where this conversion is explained. In doing so I came across some strange things like underlined text. This is beeing parsed as

So there are two things I am concerned about:

this is not HTML5 compliant

how can someone adress this selector to change the look? There is no class name.

I know this is CSS in detail but… It causes illogical ways of working, and that's not what wikidot is about I think.

Documenting base.css: Re: Documenting base.css

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:08:42 +0000

My thought was that we would define the function of each selector that wikidot uses and provide examples of what happens when you change that particular selector. To document the Base CSS, we can put what code the base uses on each page for the selector. So, the h1 page would have all the code using h1.

There is a problem. When you mix selectors like #header h1 a, then we run into the problem of having way too many selectors. I would think that it is best to describe somewhere on the site how that works (the AND and OR), and on the selector pages, perhaps we can document Base by showing that too.