Comments on: Design Change - Tabbed Sidebars

By: Laboratorio de Idiomas

Laboratorio de Idiomas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:11:59 +0000

How can we remove the recent activity and the quick start options?

By: GULER ERDUR

GULER ERDUR — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:51:22 +0000

Greetings,

I am a language and literature teacher in Robert College of Turkey. I started exercising pbwiki in my teaching this year, but I am going through a hard time in sharing with 15 years old adolescents. They are excited about putting their work on our web, but it is really hard to orchestrate them. Can you please make some suggestions to me on this matter.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:06:58 +0000

The thought is good, but making the sidebar more complicated to make it easier to use doesn’t seem realistic. Could the side bar have optional tabs: use one, two or three, whatever works best for that wiki AND maybe be located on the top, side, or bottom wherever it fits best?
Like others have already said, I would like something done to the sidebar and/or calendar so they can fit on the same page without that large empty space (and my note explaining that they don’t fit side by side.)

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:33:07 +0000

What are the rules for “recent activity”? Can the number of recent activity items the side bar shows be changed? Or does it go by days and if so, what number of days will show up in recent activity? Where can I read more about how the “recent activity” tab works?

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:26:45 +0000

Did Helen ever get a reply about how to resize the sidebar width? I’m having a simillar issue, the 30 boxes calendar will not fit next to the sidebar and changing the Calendar’s width property doesn’t fix the issue either, Calendar display is then distorted. Thx

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By: Derrick

Derrick — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:01:54 +0000

I want to get rid of the sidebars all together. Did you ever get a response?

By: John Flynn

John Flynn — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:55:03 +0000

I agree that the new tabbed SideBar can be inconvenient. I want my first-time users to be able to go straight to the SideBar since they won’t be editing the wiki right out of the gate. In fact, most users of my wiki will not be editing it at all since the content needs to be managed by a group of experts.

How can I default the Tabbed SideBars to SIDEBAR when a user loads the page for the first time?

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:05:50 +0000

I agree with Josh. That’s the way to go.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:13:51 +0000

I like the idea of the QuickStart, but then the sidebar takes up too much room on the page. I can’t get the spreadsheet plugin and the tabbed sidebar to fit next to each other.

I was able to delete the QuickStart tab by deleting the QuickStart page and then all previous versions of the sidebar. However, even without the QuickStart tab, the sidebar is still too wide.

Is there any way I can narrow the Sidebar so it fits with the spreadsheet plugin? With a free account?