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vangispen replied on February 11, 2008 02:25 to the question "How do I change the background color on my pages? I've tried using the editor, changing the color and saving, but it stays the same pukey green. yuck." in PBwiki:

Consider tips at this topic.

vangispen replied on February 11, 2008 02:07 to the question "Sortable tables?" in PBwiki:

Indeed, cool!
After some digging around: wikipedia uses an adapted version of sortable table to make that work.
With some imagination, following instructions and few adaptations for PBwiki you can make it work too!

And another, very groovey tip: Google announced forms recently which can easily be <iframe> embedded in your wiki, to survey your visitors. A nice feature ... Add a poll to your wiki!

vangispen replied on February 09, 2008 18:47 to the question "replacing wiki title text with image in css" in PBwiki:

The relevant code varies with skin and other parameters.

tip #1 Use Firefox browser and get the Web Developer extension. With this combo it's real easy to view various components of a wiki page.

tip #2 Download the CSS stylesheets used on your wiki. View source and look for <link rel="stylesheet" href=... to get the url's. Study 'm.

Good luck!

vangispen replied on February 09, 2008 12:03 to the question "How do I change the colors of my links?" in PBwiki:

Put this code in your SideBar:

<style type="text/css">
#displaycontent a { color: yellow; }
#displaycontent a:hover { color: red; }
#displaycontent .toc a { color: blue; }
</style>

Works with every skin.

vangispen replied on February 09, 2008 11:44 to the question "Using includepage widget for HTTP pages" in PBwiki:

There are good answers to your question at the "old" forum: link.
In short: includePage is a PBwiki-specific function, works

• with regular wiki pages


• not with standard html pages like "http://www.google.com"


• not with special PBwiki pages like "http://YOURWIKI.pbwiki.com/tags.php?ptag=boy"

Your other issue about dynamically showing tagged pages is interesting but I have no 1-2-3 answer. Get inspired finding a solution that will fit you by having a look at these links: TagEditorButton, MulitiSearch or browse the old forum.

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 17:47 to the question "Can I open my Wiki with the sidebar already selected?" in PBwiki:

As far as I understand this issue, a visitor's last selected tab is stored in a cookie, maybe that's why your visits defaulted to the sidebar tab. However, for new visitors it defaults to quickstart tab. Hence the question, I presume.

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 14:30 to the question "How can I track visits to ochemonline?" in PBwiki:

track visitors for free!

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 14:30 to the question "Sidebar Margins?" in PBwiki:

change SideBar width for free!

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 09:22 to the question "wiki page links" in PBwiki:

just write [Bob], will autolink to Bob's page, it's as simple as ... whatever, hahaha
but only with the Classic Editor, hm

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 02:11 to the problem "Wikistyle bold and linking bugs" in PBwiki:

Not sure but I believe you are supposed to write it like this:
* [http://www.google.com|**Google**]
* bulleted item #2

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 01:25 to the question "How do I get a certain tab on the sidebar to be the default?" in PBwiki:

Factually, I cannot get it to work -anymore-, so here's a new solution to make SideBar default tab. No widget library needed. Put this code at the bottom of your SideBar:
<script type="text/javascript">showSidebar('sb_sb');</script>

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 01:22 to the question "Can I open my Wiki with the sidebar already selected?" in PBwiki:

Make SideBar default tab. No widget library needed. Put this code at the bottom of your SideBar:
<script type="text/javascript">showSidebar('sb_sb');</script>

vangispen replied on February 06, 2008 01:20 to the question "Can I delete the quickstart sidebar?" in PBwiki:

Factually, I cannot get it to work -anymore-, so here's a new solution to make SideBar default tab. No widget library needed. Put this code at the bottom of your SideBar:
<script type="text/javascript">showSidebar('sb_sb');</script>

vangispen replied on February 05, 2008 21:18 to the discussion "What creative, innovative, or funky way do you use your PBwiki?" in PBwiki:

± same question asked

vangispen replied on February 05, 2008 21:15 to the question "How do I get a certain tab on the sidebar to be the default?" in PBwiki:

± same question asked

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vangispen replied on January 30, 2008 04:11 to the question "I already deleted Recent Activity and Quick Start. Can I change the width of the Sidebar? I don't need it so wide as it just lists the months of the year. Thanks." in PBwiki:

Changing width of content area will not change width SideBar!

SideBar width is controlled by CSS, in various statements, which might vary with choosen skin and other parameters. Most important are these:
#displaycontent div.sidebar_v2 { width:22.6em; }
html>body div.sidebar_v2 { width: 22em; }

So, if you wanna change the width of SideBar, say to 50%, put this code somewhere (top or bottom) in your SideBar:

<style>
#displaycontent div.sidebar_v2 { width:11.3em; }
html>body div.sidebar_v2 { width: 11em; }
</style>

Experiment with the value of width in the code, change em or try pixels (f.e. 140px), to see what suits you best.

SideBar width is also controlled by border, margin and padding.

Some users might wanna change div .sidebar_v2 into #SideBar.

vangispen replied on January 29, 2008 19:54 to the question "PBWiki Family Tree Capabilities" in PBwiki:

My suggestion, albeit not easy to create, edit or maintain but certainly more pleasing to the eyes, would be to use a table.
With fixed width cells, different borders and fill colours it should be easier to see the tree at a glance.
Use align and valign attributes to align cell contents (photo at top?), colspan to group cells, etc.
See tables.

And maybe replace PowerPoint with a jpeg or gif and use <map> and <area> tags to show an image with clickable hotspots?
See map and area.

vangispen replied on January 29, 2008 17:43 to the question "collapsible ToC using unordered list" in PBwiki:

use a list in the format:

# section divider A
## [topic A1]
## [topic A2]
# section divider B
## [topic B1]
## [topic B2]

vangispen replied on January 23, 2008 21:52 to the question "Sidebar height" in PBwiki:

Two suggestions to restrict content of wiki page to not overflow the area beneath the SideBar:

1) make content area fixed width
<div style="width:760px;">all content here</div>

2) make content area max width
<table><tr><td style="border-style: none; background-color: transparent;">all content here</td></tr></table>