Customizing+Your+Site

On this page I will go over some basic customizing of your new wikispace site.

On the navigation menu, click the Manage Wiki button, then you will see this page,

While this may seem overwhelming, the main area we will be looking at right now is the Look and Feel, under Settings, click there ,

The two that I use regularly are the Themes and Colors, and the Logo. The wiki stylesheet area is for those comfortable manipulating CSS stylesheets. (I have limited experience, but I am not comfortable with this) if you want help with CSS, you will need to find it in another session or will need to seek out help on a CSS forum.

For this session, lets look at the Themes and Colors section first, When you click there, you should get a page that looks like this,

This is the list of available themes and colors, I suggest you take a look at each one and see what they are all like, if you click one, it will highlight and be the active one with 3 buttons, Apply, Preview, and Preview and Customize. By clicking Apply, you make that theme the active one. You can change the theme as often as you like. If you want to use some of the 6 digit colors available, you can customize multiple parts (more in the free Education Plus account than in a free personal account). Remember that the wikispace is not mean to be the most attractive, splashy, website out there, for that you should get Dreamweaver and learn more about web site design. Wikispaces is meant to be a quick and user-friendly way to get a site up and running quickly and be a user-friendly way for the creators to edit it and keep it up to date.

The next thing to look at is the Logo, back on the Manage Wiki page from the navigation menu, and in the Look and Feel page, at the bottom is the Logo section, This is where you can bring in an image to replace the flowerpot logo that is the default. for this you must have an image file located in a stored location for wikispaces to find, and you will know if it is too large or too small after you go through the steps. This can be changed as often as you like as well, you can even use animated .gif files, like I did with my class wiki.