User talk:Ob.helm

Easy update of frontpage
I've built two German Wikis, one for the Democratic Turkey Forum and one for the Turkey coordination group (cogroup) of Amnesty International (AI) in Germany. The site of the cogroup was a specific challenge since all groups of AI had been asked to adopt their layout (look) to that of the International Secretariat or the section of their country.

In both cases the goal was to create a site that could be maintained by people without any knowledge of how to create and edit pages for the Internet.

Solution for the DTF
The frontpage of the Democratic Turkey Forum already existed when an update was necessary to tell visitors that a major event had happened. I wanted to place that information next to the table of contents with seven items. In this case the trick was to create a table with two columns, one for the table of contents (TOC) and one for the box with the fresh information.

To this end I created a template by the name of Neues and put this in the second column of the table. The source code looked like It was enough to say that the box with the template Neues (another table) had the width of 90%. Such a box could look like