Features / Usability

> Thanks to the help of this community, we are now using the wiki and blog features of tikiwiki within our library and ever expanding into some of the other modules....
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> Right now we are considering moving our very basic static html based staff intranet pages to tikiwiki....basically it is a homepage that links of to things such as staff list, policies and procedures, etc (all this straight html)....right now we have staff trying to maintain the html code with notepad or frontpage....one of the things we want to accomplish within tikiwiki is to move to a wysiwyg editor on the pages....
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> I am trying to get a feel for how to go about this....do I just create wiki pages for the homepage, staff list, etc. and then link the pages together.....on a previous post I asked about articles portion of tikiwiki...does this fit in....
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> more info....what I forsee on the homepage is basically a menu structure with links to various information, probably on the right side of the page displaying blog entries from staff of various info, maybe some kind of calendar event integration....that kind of stuff..
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> very bare bones description, but would appreciate any input from the community how they would go about putting this together....
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> Thanks!

Relative to your other question about articles - you might want to have formal policies and procedures posted as articles, while other stuff that changes more rapidly as wiki pages.

Sounds like you're on the right track. I would start creating a new Wiki page for each content item. You might also look at Tiki's category and structure features. They will allow you to logically organize your site.

HTH,

-Rick

For calendar event integration: use modules related to calendar, upcoming events, etc.

For articles (better than blog entries, I guess?), you can use Wiki Plugins like PluginArticles...

FOr creating a list of staff, etc., you can use the trackers... (example of trackers for staff linked from the Trackers page here on tw.o....