With Google Sites you have the option to publish either to the web or to Illinois users. Google Sites has a WYSIWYG editor where you can drag and drop site elements such as text and image boxes as well as elements from your Illinois Google Apps, such as Google Docs and YouTube videos. It is possible to get a hosted sites dot google dot illinois dot edu site// for yourself or or your organization. ![]() And to learn more about Weebly and other free website platforms, check out these site builder tutorials from the iSchool!Īre there still hosted options on campus?ĭon’t have a lot of experience building websites and looking for something really really simple? Definitely check out Google Sites through your Illinois Google Apps. As we’ve discussed before on this blog, Weebly is one of the easiest to use, including WYSIWYG editor with customization based on dragging and dropping components, and still has a professional look. It’s been retired, everything on it is in read only, the hardware has been left to die and will be dead by January 3rd 2018, and everything will go where these things go when they die (that great server in the sky I suppose). Let us know in the comments if you have any other personal information management systems that need more love! Posted in Data, Digital Scholarship, Review, Technology | Tagged British, digital humanities, Markdown, Note-Taking, pim, Research, tiddler, TiddlyWiki, web-based tools, wiki | Leave a reply Life after I Drive: Setting up a website for yourself or your project! Note: Don’t save things to the Desktop on Scholarly Commons computers long-term, as files are routinely erased. After, you can click on the cat icon and set it to automatically save your changes to your file on the Desktop. If you’re using Firefox and using the Firefox plugin I recommend downloading an empty wiki and copying it from your Downloads and pasting it to your G:Drive or another place where files aren’t deleted automatically. It creates one HTML file that you update as you save. Setting up where your files save so you can find them again is probably the hardest part of setting up a TiddlyWiki. You can use TiddlyWiki with TiddlySpot, Tiddly Desktop, or various browsers as well as node.js or a variety of other options for saving the program. There are encryption plugins, which I have not tested, to create password-protected tiddlers and offer some basic security (though neither I nor the creators of TiddlyWiki endorse putting sensitive information on one of these sites). ![]() TiddlyWiki includes search functionality and tagging, which is especially useful, as you can click on a tag you get a list of pages that have that tag. You can add images and scribble all over them, as well as save links to websites with a download and some difficulty. There is also a plugin that will let you write your tiddlers in Markdown if you are more familiar and comfortable with that. The WikiText language is similar to Markdown. There is a WYSIWYG editor and formatting options, though you will still need to become familiar with the WikiText language in order to use more interesting formatting and customization. There are a lot of options for customization, as well as an active community that keeps the project alive and adds new customization options for different purposes (such as for writing a thesis). However, TiddlyWiki is not as pretty and is focused more on note-taking and information management than presentation. This is very similar to Scalar CMS where all content is equal, and can be linked or embedded in each other to tell both linear and nonlinear stories. Tiddlers are individual units that you can incorporate into larger tiddlers through a process called “transclusion.” To have a tiddler all you need is a title. Still, if you’re looking for a way to manage all of your information and feeling particularly adventurous (and not at all into aesthetics, as TiddlyWiki is an ugly website - though CSS customization is possible) you might enjoy TiddlyWiki.Įverything in TiddlyWiki is a small piece, a tiddler - a British word for a small fish - which you can stack, arrange, and link however you like. ![]() TiddlyWiki is mostly used for task management. ![]() To summarize: this is a British, somewhat tricky to use, free and open source note taking and information management linked web wiki platform made in Javascript. “It’s like a hypertext card index system from the future” -Jeremy Ruston, in the TiddlyWiki intro video Here at Commons Knowledge we like to talk about all of the various options out there for personal and information management tools, so today we’re talking about TiddlyWiki!
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