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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 | + | 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 our 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 we started working with wiki we doubted | + | Frankly speaking, when we started working with wiki we doubted our 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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