Site News

In addition to Twitter and Facebook, Smarties is now using Google Friend Connect. You can use the Social Bar at the bottom of the page to become a "friend" or leave a comment.

Smarties is now running the latest version of Tik — 4.x. I'll be fine-tuning things over the next few days. Please Contact Us let me know if you find any issues.

Did you know that Smarties supports OpenID? Yup, Tiki has had OpenID support since release 1.10 (or 2.0, if you prefer).

To login with your OpenID, simply click the OpenID button in the login form at the top of the page.

You'll then be able to enter your OpenID and validate it.

Pretty neat, eh?

Everything has been repaired and restored — Smarties is "smart" again.

Next on my "to do" list is evaluating/moving to 4.x...

Had a slight database problem, but everything is now corrected. Pages that were added and updated between Nov. 15 - 20 are having problems.

No worries though (especially for Jorkki who has been working on Finnish translations) — the pages will be restored from backups during this weekend.

I've completed the upgrade of Smarties to Tiki 3.3. It has been a long time n coming, but now that I'm finally up-to-date, I've taken this opportunity to implement several of Tiki's newest features as well as improve some of the site's design issues.

Hot on the heels of Tiki 3.3 and 4.0 Beta, I'm working on updating the TikiWiki for Smarties site. Some of the features I will be adding:

• Improved site layout/UI
• Better multilingual/translation support
• Allowing anonymous edits via Tiki's staging feature
• Other minor tweaks.

You can see a sneak preview of the new site (in progress) at: http://twbasics.keycontent.org/smarter/

Please do tell me what you think.

Release 3.0 is nearly ready! I have been working on updating the Smarties information. I've also been testing the site upgrade (from 2.x to 3.0) and can report that it went quite smoothly. The biggest issues will be moving from a tables-based layout to (almost) pure CSS.

In the meantime, I've been playing with a custom browser toolbar for Smarties:



It provides direct access to the major chapter sections in the guide, the demo videos, search engine, and RSS feeds. Try it out and let me know what you think!

Download and install the TikiWiki for Smarties Community toolbar: http://tikiwikiforsmarties.ourtoolbar.com/

TikiWiki for Dummies Smarties is now on Twitter! Just start following @twbasics to stay up-to-date!



(Not much yet, but more coming as I update for 3.0!

I just heard... TikiWiki for Dummies Smarties has won a Merit Award in the STC Carolina Online Communication.

From the competition...

To earn a merit award, the entry must consistently meet high standards in most areas. The entry might contain a small number of major or minor flaws, but still applies technical communication principles in a highly proficient manner.

I'll link to the official announcement when it is posted, as well as include several of the judging comments. Thanks to all who contributed to this project!