Happy New Year, everyone. Thanks to all of you who posted entries for the CSS package competition. We're studying the entries now, and will announce the winners later today. Stay tuned for updates… :-)
Update Tell us your favourites, here.
Update Looking at the entries so far, I'm fairly impressed but not enough to give five prizes. Luckily, the competition rules include These rules may be improved and adapted over time if needed.
Three prize winners so far.
First, Fereal, for getting in early, before the original deadline, with two neat and perfectly executed entries, Easy Logo and Header and Simple Tables Manipulation. I especially liked that you showed the CSS code, Fereal, because part of any package is educational: to explain to others how you did it.
Second, Timothy Foster, for the nice and useful Fonting a Page package. This just shows precisely why per-page CSS is so useful.
And third, gerdami for his trio of entries, each solving one specific problem in a neat way.
To the others who submitted a package: you might still win. Don't be afraid to borrow ideas, improve on other peoples' work, and always aim to make your designs simpler. high level and more generic. We're going to extend the competition to the end of January.
Can't wait :)
Personal favourites are 1, 2, or 3 Columns (looks complicated…and I'm yet to look at it in detail, but it seems like a lot of work has been put in), Apply a snowy theme to your page (for simplicity), Custom Navi-Bar (awesome!), and Simple Tables Manipulation (soooo useful!)
And of course I like my own submission, spoiler module, as it was made out of necessity for a project of mine, a few months back, and enhanced for this competition thanks to the CSS module (which I've finally found some good uses for)
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I am somewhat disappointed with the small number of competitors and with the fact that no one came with a mobile solution.
EDIT: interesting reading : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mobile-usability.html
I would have done a mobile solution, but it requires the "viewport" meta tag. I asked for it in a weneed, but it wasn't done. Vote it up here if you want custom meta data names, too.
They can't add every feature within a few days of it being requested, particularly if it hasn't been requested before.
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Oh yes, I know. The wikidot team has more important things to do than that. That is why I changed to the image hover popup.
I was hoping there'd be more submissions as well. Was thinking about adding a second one but didn't get around to it.
Hopefully, if there is another theme contest, more people will enter. CSS is a widely-used language, whilst CSIs and the CSS module are Wikidot-only, and are recent feature additions.
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To my opinion, the reason why not there wasn't much submissions is because but CSIs and the CSS module were quite new features of Wikidot. Most users haven't have a clue how it works, etc…..
As for my favourites, here they are:
Spoiler module
Simple Tables Manipulation
Easy Logo and Header
Fonting a Page
and my Custom navi-bar
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
I agree as to why there were probably fewer entries than before. I just wish I'd had time to focus on it and submit something.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Rob,
You were so busy with the Community css that your sins are already forgiven…
My favourite is just the snowy theme, because there is no parameter at all.
Easy to install, easy to remove: just a copy and paste of
[[include :css-competition:include:snowy-theme]]
Moreover, the code is easy to understand for a further customisation.
Runners-up: custom navi-bar and the spoiler.
Just to see if I could…
Check this out: http://myfamilyphotos.wikidot.com/blog:3-column-csi
I tweaked my live example page and plugged in 3 4 5 more CSIs from the competition. I thought there was some kind of limit on how many can be placed on a single page, but apparently not! It's kind of fun to mix and match CSIs!
It's hard to pick a favorite. I honestly like all of the submissions. Simple is good, but so is power and flexibility for those that want it. Even though the volume was low, I think the overall quality was very good.
I'm not sure about others, but the timing of this competition wasn't great for me due to the holidays and the end of the year workload. In fact, I'd propose that you extend it again (since you haven't announced any winners yet) and give us a couple more weeks to play around.
The boring part of winter is about to set it in and on days like today where I woke up to -17º F, I can think of nothing better to do than get cozy with a hot toddy and work on a CSI!
-Ed
Community Admin
Speaking as a new user, and a total buckethead, my favorite is - and vote goes to "Fonting" a Page! It's something that can come in handy for us dipsticks. And there are 300-400 of us invading your space every day. A runner-up is the spoiler module. I'm loving it here thanks for the contest.
-jimmybond
Thanks for mentioning mine :) Glad someone else will use it!
Great — all worthy winners (every single entry was, IMO) — and hopefully there'll be more entries soon. I have a backlog of emails to check (more than 200) so not sure when I'll get around to improving the spoiler module by adding further instructions, etc.
I'm on Wikidot a lot less this year so far, mostly due to Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2 (both are Xbox 360 games for those that don't know). Have been meeting up with friends and having a lot of intense local matches :P
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But is situated an your own domein… I just wanted to tweak the changing position of the spoiler. nothing more.
A - S I M P L E - P L A N by ARTiZEN a startingpoint for simple wikidot solutions.
You should be able to view the source still, and can give editing rights if you'd like. I need to move that code, anyway…
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Yes pleas do… move it or change the rights…
I was also building the "hover-text-show-picture" as a csi… but I need to fix the <p> inside … otherwize it could work fine if inline includes would finaly work. Maybe you can have a look at http://testingzone.wikidot.com/hover-text-show-image-test
A - S I M P L E - P L A N by ARTiZEN a startingpoint for simple wikidot solutions.
Thanks.
I finished it. The mobile css is here!