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<div align=justify>Everyone of us would like to have a site. The reasons may differ: just to try yourself in site creation; create a site for your family or friends; start business on-line. Nowadays there is a huge variety of software, programs, tools to create a site. Some of them require basic knowledge of site building technologies, others can be used by anyone without any difficulties. | <div align=justify>Everyone of us would like to have a site. The reasons may differ: just to try yourself in site creation; create a site for your family or friends; start business on-line. Nowadays there is a huge variety of software, programs, tools to create a site. Some of them require basic knowledge of site building technologies, others can be used by anyone without any difficulties. | ||
| − | + | We have also run into the difficulty of choosing a tool that would be easy in use and wouldn't require any complicated actions to create a nice-looking and proper functional site. After making a list of possible site building tools and considering a great number of pros and cons we have chosen wiki (also known as MediaWiki). The reason for my choice were as follows: | |
- it allows to create a database-driven site, which is useful to keep the data properly organized; | - it allows to create a database-driven site, which is useful to keep the data properly organized; | ||
- it is easy to install and manage; | - it is easy to install and manage; | ||
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To start working with wiki, you need to have a registered domain name and sign up for hosting. Domain name is needed to create a site for it and hosting provides the space on a web server for your site to be available to all Internet users. | To start working with wiki, you need to have a registered domain name and sign up for hosting. Domain name is needed to create a site for it and hosting provides the space on a web server for your site to be available to all Internet users. | ||
| − | Frankly speaking, when | + | Frankly speaking, when we started working with wiki we doubted my original choice. But gradually we've made sure that it was the best decision made. |
First of all you need to download the wiki installation from the net. The best source of mediawiki installation is '''http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download''' | First of all you need to download the wiki installation from the net. The best source of mediawiki installation is '''http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download''' | ||
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''Note:''' replace 'your_skin' with your actual skin name (e.g. MonoBook) | ''Note:''' replace 'your_skin' with your actual skin name (e.g. MonoBook) | ||
| − | Another example is how to remove/hide the toolbox. By default the mediawiki sites have two blocks called 'navigation' and 'toolbar'. Numerous forums are dedicated to the issue with toolbar removal. You are the luckiest as | + | Another example is how to remove/hide the toolbox. By default the mediawiki sites have two blocks called 'navigation' and 'toolbar'. Numerous forums are dedicated to the issue with toolbar removal. You are the luckiest as we will provide you with fast and simple solution. |
So, to remove the toolbar from a mediwiki site you need to complete the below steps: | So, to remove the toolbar from a mediwiki site you need to complete the below steps: | ||
1. add the following line to your main.css file: | 1. add the following line to your main.css file: | ||
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| − | To sum it all up, | + | To sum it all up, we would like to say that mediawiki is one of the best (if not the best) tools to create a site both for experienced and non-technically minded users. If you would like to see an example of site built in mediawiki then go to http://myidealhost.com/tutorials/. Oops, this is the page you are currently at! |
| − | Hope you'll enjoy working with mediawiki as much as | + | Hope you'll enjoy working with mediawiki as much as we did! :)</div> |
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