Wiki Redesign

This weekend I finally dove into a task that I’ve been wanting to get after…wiki redesign!!

First, let me say that I absolutely love Wikispaces. The wikis are very user friendly and they even give perks to educators!

What my wikis were lacking…genuine cuteness. I mean, I’m all about the cuteness and I REALLY needed to fix up my wiki. I was inspired by SIGML’s Wiki which is so nicely done! And their great designer, Victor Fitzjarrald, has created a great Wiki Design tutorial. Score!

So I spent Saturday getting cozy with Photoshop and CSS and put lots of work into our SIGMS wiki.

Check out the SIGMS Wiki here!

Then I was hooked. My presentation wiki was much overdue for some TLC. Our state technology conference, LACUE, is coming up and I’ve got a presentation that I’ll be working on for that…so it needed a extra cute home.

Check out my Presentation Wiki here 🙂

I think the buttons are what really make the new look pop — those were created in Photoshop. According to my husband (who does graphic/web design), I know just enough Photoshop to mess things up. HA! I fixed things up 🙂 So proud of myself!!

I was inspired a second time this week by the absolutely FANTABULOUS Gwyneth Jones! Yep, that Daring Librarian is uber inspiring! She posted about Dropbox, which I finally took advantage of last week. I grew to love it so much, so quickly that I created a Tech Tuesday video about it:

 

4 thoughts on “Wiki Redesign

  1. Thank you so much dear for the kind shout out! You always spur me to new challenges! (like my presentation wiki inspired by yours?) — Also, Love your DROPBOX video…the only thing you missed was the fact that you can SHARE folders & files with people or groups! Just like how you can assign sharing & editing rights in Google Docs the same with Dropbox – Snap! Amazing! I haven’t played with the CSS Wikispaces code though..something to add to my “to do” list!
    Cheers!
    ~Gwyneth

    Ps. Speaking of a To Do list… I’m also waiting for you to make that video of our Teacher Librarian Geek Tribe Gang Sign….yeah, you know the one! Didn’t you agree to make a short video? Or am I just hoping that you did!

  2. The wikis look great and your 12 Things is making me jealous:) So far I’ve claimed my wiki name and that’s about it. Shame on me. I need to get in gear and try to make it at least tolerable to look at:)

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