http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/ The ORIGINAL Dept 56 Discussion Group Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:16:30 GMT atafadtw http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102987 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102987 Hello everyone, Been a while since I posted but been busy and lots has happened. Anyway, I am going to be getting rid of a lot of my D56 collection. I have Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:54:57 GMT James Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102986 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102986 It looks neat, but I would be worried about storage space and bandwidth issues. There are tons of department 56 pieces and all those pictures will eat up Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:49:36 GMT Kristin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102985 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102985 James, Have you ever heard of www.wetpaint.com? It might be worth looking into. It's kind-of a cross between a Wiki and a point and click type sitebuilder. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:23:26 GMT Penny http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102984 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102984 You might want to ask Richard Marcia who does a D56 Blog.  He may be able to help you.  He is also in this group. Penny [Non-text portions of this message Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:08:18 GMT Kristin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102983 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102983 SuzyQ - I didn't know about the CTRL+click in IE. That's helpful and good to know, although I use Firefox most of the time. I should check if they have Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:35:28 GMT SLY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102982 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102982 I also like the idea - as Kristin has commented, there is a lot of cumulative knowlledge here that could enrich the basic information about pieces, and also Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:52:42 GMT SuzyQ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102981 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102981 Windows/IE allows one to use CTRL+Click to force a link to open in a new tab of the current IE window. I use it all the time as I don't like to have my current Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:31:29 GMT esme56@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102980 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102980 Kristin, I don't know much about this stuff, but I do know that how the new page opens is part of my preferences on my own computer. Not sure if you can Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:30:28 GMT James Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102979 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102979 There is some documentation on how to create custom theme's, and I'd like to make a custom one. There are CSS' available for each of the themes. Could custom Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:04:45 GMT Kristin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102978 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102978 James - I played around with the editing a little, but didn't figure out how to add pictures. I left some examples of adding links, but you can erase my Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:42:05 GMT James Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102977 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102977 Hmm easier said than done.. I'm investigating mediawiki's site on how to embed images into the pages, but I was able to successfully change the theme on the Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:19:54 GMT James Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102976 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102976 That can be done. I'll investigate changing some of the colors around on the front end. Nice idea. James "I see blindness, not as a disability, but more of an Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:16:23 GMT xmscity1225 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102975 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102975 ... . . . If the design looks familiar, it should. It's the same software that Wikipedia uses to run their website. ... If it looks that much like a wikipedia Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:13:27 GMT James Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102974 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102974 Right, thats correct, thats all that is there. I didn't want to start putting stuff into it if people did not like the lay out of the software. It's just to Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:29:26 GMT ebeigh@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102973 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dept56/message/102973 This is all I could find did I miss something? MediaWiki has been successfully installed. This is a test page of the new media wiki software for the