Appearance enhancement

Besides collecting useful and trustworthy information, a wiki should attract the attention of the users.

Ways to improve the Appearance of your wiki
We collected some ideas how you can improve your wiki (or your wiki page). Feel free to add your thoughts here!

Word Clouds
A word cloud (also called tag cloud) can be used to visualize the key words of your topic. There are several ways to make your own word cloud:
 * you can do it completely by yourself with a word processor or graphics editor, e.g. Microsoft Word, Microsoft Visio, Adobe Illustrator etc.
 * you can use a web editor, e.g.
 * Word it out - easy to use, but limited shapes
 * Wordle - some difficulties with the JAVA applet may appear, but you can use more shapes
 * Tagul - you can individualize the shapes, but you have to register

Improved graphics
You may have already included some graphics, but sometimes there are impressive enough. Try to prettify them!

You may
 * use vector graphics instead of pixel-based ones. They can be magnified infinitely without loss of quality. Tools for creating vector graphics are for example: Adobe Illustrator, DIA, or Microsoft Visio.
 * replace third party graphics with your own ones.
 * edit your graphics, for example with Adobe Photoshop, or GIMP.
 * check their appearance with different browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome etc.) or different operating systems (Windows, Linux, Android)...

Add a video clip
Some facts can be easier explained by a video than by text or pictures. You can add a video to your wiki from a supported site (for example Dailymotion, Vimeo, or Youtube) or add a video to your gallery (if supported).

By way of example, we included a video about inserting templates here.



Using templates
A template can be used to collect and illustrate information and to give associating pages a consistent style. Please watch the video above for a general introduction into templates.

The most used template is the infobox, as depicted on the right side.

As you can see, the general infobox is too vague, but you can edit the templates on their corresponding page, e.g. for the general infobox: http://english-in-science.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Infobox.

Caution! You may change already implemented infoboxes. Alternatively, you may add a new template by editing the link, e.g. http://english-in-science.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Infobox2.

Adding a counter
Is your page frequently visited or does nobody care? Use a counter to track the number of visitors. A guideline can be found here.