How can I find it?

We go through some special features of Wikidot while also quickly discussing some tools for investigating the popularity of certain Web sites.

Class held on 11/04/2009. (student notes; possible questions).

Web site popularity

• Google Trends for Web sites
• Alexa Site Info

Wikidot issues

1. Question from student: "We have blog:blogtitle and we can see them all by going to bloglist. Can we make a template for other things, like to list feeds or reviews?"
   • Create (e.g.) news:_template (and have the contents be something like "blog:_template")
   • Create (e.g.) news-stories (and have the contents be something like "bloglist")
   • You can also look at my code on the homepage for the list of announcements (annc), schedule items (sched09), and blogs (blog).
2. Images not showing up
   • Make sure the image name is allOneWordWithNoSpaces.
3. Header images
   • Start with Site Manager/ Appearance/ Themes
   • And then progress with Custom Themes
   • Sample themes can be found at pages such as
     • http://www.wikidot.com/common--theme/cappuccino/css/style.css
     • http://www.wikidot.com/common--theme/flannel/css/style.css
   • Themes preview page
   • Theme that I use
   • Design your own CSS theme
   • Free Wikidot Themes
   • ColorBlender — for setting up color themes
   • HTML Color Codes (and color picker)
   • Articles about color and Web design
4. Help with coding Wikidot
   • Wikidot Snippets
   • Modules
   • Templates (like for blogs or news items)