What new section did we just add to The Pet Wiki? A question and answer section! Before I started The Pet Wiki, I worked for 10 years at Answers.com. They are the people who run WikiAnswers. If there is one thing that I’ve learned over the years, it’s that there is no better way to engage […]
So, you have a MediaWiki site up and running, you set up a local copy of the MediaWiki environment, you created a development environment and you have a wiki skin ready to be modified. Now what? Here’s where the fun begins. What do you want your wiki to look like? If you have graphic skills […]
So you’ve installed the MediaWiki and you’ve set up a MediaWiki development environment. Now what? The next step is to get down and dirty and skin the thing. Skinning a wiki is the fun part. There is nothing like an amazing user interface to draw people into your site. As a philosophy, I never start […]
If you followed my post from last week (The Non-Programmer’s Guide to Setting Up a Wiki), you now have a wiki up and running. That was cool, but now what? If you’re ready to stretch your html and css skills you can make the wiki your own by creating your very own skin. Before you […]
I’m not a programmer. I don’t even play one on TV. I have technical skills, but I wouldn’t go as far to say as that I’m a real geek. I like to think of myself as a geek in training. That said, I’d like to take some time to show my fellow geeks in training […]