Mikiwedia is a negatively-priced 'wiki' and structured website generator that enables small groups to create structured information websites. Like normal Wikis, Mikiwedia has an easy learning curve, but it has lots of room to be abused, later.

Other wikis and content management systems have a few problems

• They continue to look like the large iZoom product you downloaded, because you know that any crafted artistic changes you make will be obliterated by the next compulsory upgrade.
• They look confusing and unstructured.
• They need expert management, security updates and MySQL database repairs. They can also permanently crash while you are at your most disinterested.
• You lose control over innovation, because you aren't sure what you can touch.
• They have a simple language that is not user-extensible.
• They depend on PHP to serve the content dynamically, so can be sabotaged.

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Mikiwedia is an online website creator (written in PHP), designed for individual or group access.

Individuals typically use products like Homesite, Frontpage, or even Word to put up hobby websites, but they usually lack discipline because they get new ideas on each page, and can't be bothered updating the other pages. Management becomes impossible once a few other dissidents want to become involved in the project.

Mikiwedia manages

• the menu system,
• image and document tracking,
• thumbnails,
• page linking and document structure
• browser compatibility

The micro formatting of text, bars, images, boxes and quotes is achieved by a few "macro" functions, which need to be learned at your leisure. You can write pages without them, but they will probably look like rubbish.

About 6 macros have been used to perpetrate this page. You can see them by pressing on the small, unthreatening, Miki icon at the foot of this page. Like all wikis, you can steal other people's cool stuff, to use it on your page.

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