David Spitzley wrote: > Ideally I want to allow separate logins per business or other organization, > with separate pages for each, each of them individually stylable. I'm half > considering rolling my own, but I'd like hear any suggestions others may have > of either specific configurations of pmwiki (I've done about 6 installs for > different purposes, but nothing too different from a standard wiki), or of > other software which would support such a project effectively. > PmWiki is a fantastic toolbox for building web sites easy to modify and easy to maintain - i.e. for those who have and take the time to learn a lot of "strange" markup. I have set up several dozens of web sites with PmWiki, on several web hosts, quite a few on fairly large farms. With almost the same number of different skins, all developed by myself. I've never used a skin from pmwiki.org, since it's so easy to design nice-looking skins from scratch. All sites work like charm, except ...
... except for sites with "novice" users, where PmWiki's lack of WYSIWYG editing is an effective barrier to user participation. Most people simply don't want to take the time to learn wiki "coding". And if they try, they often get things wrong, end up with an ugly looking page and never try again. In one case, a club site where club members were supposed to contribute text and images, we had to scrap the PmWiki site entirely and instead use WordPress. That reduced the number of degrees of freedom in web design but solved the problem with user participation. my small coin / kjettil _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
