This is a quick checklist for all new Wikidot sites. It may be useful to quickly go through this list, to ensure that you've completed all or most of these tasks already.
Probably the most important step! View our Creating your first Wikidot site page for more information. The bottom of that page also includes a video tutorial, if you prefer those.
You may also find the Handbook page helpful.
Also known as your welcome page or home page, it usually contains extremely helpful information for all new Wikidot users.
We highly recommend that before you edit this page, you make a copy of it elsewhere for future reference.
Create a new page, e.g. start-old. You can do this by visiting http://YOUR-SITE.wikidot.com/start-old and clicking on the 'Create page' link.
Enter a title for the page, e.g. "Old start page"
When your new Wikidot site was generated, two navigation pages were created: nav:side and nav:top. These pages use a [category called nav (short for navigation).
You should remember to edit these pages, and to add any important links on those pages so that they are easily accessible to your Wikidot site's visitors. Help with editing these pages can be found on the Menu page.
If you wish to change the name of these navigational pages (or even the category), you can do so in the site manager.
It is a good idea to save and use the standard menus from wikidot. Think of the visitors who will come to your site and will have, at the first entry, no idea what to read first and where to go. It should be obvious how to find your most important content, otherwise potential visitors will leave your site without a second glance and search for a different resource on the topic instead.
How to let people join my site?