After dozens of hours, weeks of planning and many attempts we are more than happy to introduce the new front page for Wikidot. It is not just a theme, but the new structure of pages and a step in improving the perception of our service.
First of all we tried to see how people actually use Wikidot and highlight the most popular applications. We have also asked some of our users for feedback and testimonials that we could use with the new theme — thank you for all the great responses, we are simply overwhelmed by them!
We also wanted to feature more great Wikis on the front page. We will try to rotate the Wikis from time to time (BTW: if you have a popular / beautiful / useful Wiki and want to be featured, let us know).
As one of the next steps we will try to improve the "My Account" area and gradually convert it into a Dashboard with the overview of all activities related to your account, so that regular users would go directly there.
We hope the changes will improve usability and make Wikidot more productive and easy to work with.
Most credits should go to Lukasz (Squark) who designed the major part of the work and kept his eye on everything.
BTW: We realize there are still a few places to fix, we are working on it!
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
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