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New Interface

colindonihue 11 Nov 2009 05:44

So what do you think? My goal was to design an interface that we could all use to more easily navigate to target pages of interest. The "Extra Info" tab is still a bit messy and I'd love other suggestions for organizing it - does most recent post first make sense? The syllabus isn't all that helpful - do you want it up or is it better just taken off? Is this layout easier? Do you have suggestions to make it better?

I'm going to need some help keeping all of these pages current. If you're so inclined send me an e-mail (cdonihue) and I'll show you how I made the site, or you can just look through the code.

Hope y'all don't mind the huge change and I especially hope we find it a bit easier to visit and post on. Good night!

Re: New Interface

Lauren Cotter 19 Nov 2009 19:21

Colin,
This is great! I'm glad someone took the initiative!!! Thanks, lauren cotter

A note about the community forum postings

colindonihue 11 Nov 2009 05:57

These forum postings have some pretty good potential for dialogue. Start a new thread by typing in a "Post Title" or if you'd like to respond to an already existing thread click on the "reply" link under the latest posting.

Important note: once you've posted something you can't delete it (case in point: somewhere hiding in the wiki I have a bunch of very silly test posts back and forth to myself and I still can't figure out how to get rid of all of them).

You can put these dialogue boxes anywhere on the wiki though so be thinking of creative reasons for discussion - test questions, philosophical/existential debates, Stella rants etc. Let's try to keep this page focused on topics pertinent to the wiki as a whole - we can add as many others as you'd like everywhere else. All you have to do is write [[module Comments]] when editing a page.

How to delete pages?

3m1ly 23 Nov 2009 19:05

I'm thinking of deleting that blank page in the Lecture 15 section—anyone know how?

Re: How to delete pages?

colindonihue 23 Nov 2009 20:47

I've had trouble figuring out how to delete pages too. The easiest way to remove it from the Lecture 15 section is to remove the tag (done). You can also "mark it as deleted" or some other such tagging, but it still floats around in the "list all pages" view. Not a big issue as there haven't been all that many that have been deleted but it could get messy. I think the only real way is for an admin to completely wipe it.

I deleted the tag though so it won't clutter the Lecture 15 section.

How to add to "extra info" tab?

alubershane 01 Dec 2009 14:05

Every time I try it just lets me edit the main page. What I want to do is create a link to a new page on the "extra info" page. I'm a noob at this. Can someone help?

Re: How to add to "extra info" tab?

colindonihue 01 Dec 2009 15:04

The extra info tab is a most-recent-first collection of all pages that have a tag "extra_info" In other words, you can't edit that list in this page, simply add "extra_info" to the page you created and it will update at the top of the list (hopefully). If that doesn't work send another note.