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<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>WetPaint, a popular hosted Wiki solution, announced this week that they are to provide person-to-person and private messaging between users of their Wiki network. This means that Wetpaint Wiki users can now send single or multi-person private messages, to connect and collaborate with others about their interest
it got me thinking about Wikis - or more to the point, who is using them and for what purpose. Firstly, I'll briefly describe wikis and then we'll explore the range of wiki products in the market right now.
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- Ok so up to now we have seen some examples of Wikis in use in the real world, but what benefit can a Wiki be to you as an individual or a company?
- More and more companies are using a Wiki as collaborative software. They are a great way to maintain internal documentation; all of your staff can contribute and edit documents as need be. A Wiki could even be used to replace large chunks of your otherwise static intranet.
- Software Solutions
  
  MediaWiki is the mother of them all. Why? Well for a start it's free, and secondly it powers Wikipedia - so you can't get more of a thumbs up than that.
  
  Bit Weaver is an open source content management system based upon TikiWiki. The base installation is bare, with nothing more than a theme switcher and user management system. Additional functionality is added by add-on packages.
  
  SocialText is an enterprise wiki and weblog. It is available as a hosted service or a hardware appliance. Pricing is a bit sketchy on their website. When you go to the pricing page they just have a link saying "Contact Our Sales Team For Pricing". When you see that, you know its going to be dear ;-)
  
  Atlassian is a probably the leading wiki provider for enterprises, in terms of its sales. It also has a new product called Confluence Hosted, so it has both software and hosted versions. [Note: Atlassian is a recent R/WW sponsor]
  
  I have no doubt missed loads of great services and sites to power your future Wiki, so for more information on options for building one, check out the Wiki Matrix. They offer a free online comparison tool that details over 100 different wiki solutions.
- Overall, if you want a place for people (staff, fellow enthusiasts, etc) to share, collect and maintain data relating to a topic - then a Wiki might just save you a lot of hassle.

Free Worldwide Travel Guides - Wikitravel

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travel wiki guide reference

07 Nov 09

Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers - Six Revisions

If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout – here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

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03 Nov 09

Cascading Style Sheets

W3C on CSS

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g.
fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. Tutorials, books, mailing
lists for users, etc. can be found on the “learning
CSS” page. For background information on style sheets, see the Web style sheets page. Discussions
about CSS are carried out on the (archived)
www-style@w3.org
mailing list (and sometimes on the CSS
blog) and
on
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets.