How to Change the Background of Your Wikispace

Back up wikispace - Backing up your wikispace is always a good idea when your wikispace starts filling up with information, discussions, and files that you’ve uploaded to your wikispace. And thanks to wikispaces.com, they’ve made the process of backing up your wikispace very easy.

Display a Blog's Latest Posts in Your Wikispace - Wikispaces.com has a really cool option of displaying the latest posts from a blog. This is a great way to pull in other helpful information related to the information you post on certain wikispace pages. For example, let’s say you’ve just created a new page on your wikispace that contains helpful instructions on how to use Smartboards in your classroom. You decide to Google “Smartboard blog” to see if anyone else provides great information on using Smartboards in the classroom. You f...

Inserting Repeatable Background on a Wikispace - In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a repeatable background that covers the entire background of your wikispace using one line of CSS. We’ll do this by editing a custom template.

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- Adding a Table of Contents to your wikispace is very simple, and should be used on pages that have lots of information. It will ensure that your users don’t have to keep scrolling down to find the information that they’re looking for, and it helps to break down your page into segments.

Create a Rounded Corners Content Box easily - Adding just a little bit of inline CSS within the Embed Widget > Other HTML tool can provide a clean design change for your content within your wikispace. I’ve provided a download link below to the HTML file that contains the code I use in the tutorial to create the rounded corner content box. You can change the colors I’ve used within the code by inserting a different 6-digit hex color code for either the background or the border. View the tutorial for simple instructions.

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- Wikitext makes it easy to insert a labeled link inside your wikispace. A labeled link allows you to label the link you are inserting with descriptive text that tells the user more about the link.

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