WebWag : your personal page

By    John Garner on  Monday, August 28, 2006
Summary: A personal page service that allows you to choose what and where you add content, isn't new, but when it just does that, then it quickly provides more than the others, with more freedom in the what (you add) area. I recently finished work on a plug-in that provides personal page functions, so I appreciate […]

A personal page service that allows you to choose what and where you add content, isn't new, but when it just does that, then it quickly provides more than the others, with more freedom in the what (you add) area.

I recently finished work on a plug-in that provides personal page functions, so I appreciate the value of WebWag, it is very impressive. Both functional and usability aspects are good. This type of product is capable of easily expanding services and functions as well.

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You can add pages that appear as tabs at the top of the page, rename the whole area, add, move delete the boxes that correspond to the different functions and content that appears. I didn't find a way to edit the way the page looks (colours, font size, column width, page width). Also it could be me, but I couldn't place search anywhere else but in the middle column.

The system is impressive however and I think it will only get better...

Article written by  John Garner

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2 comments on “WebWag : your personal page”

  1. Hi,

    I am using this webwag it looks great. but for soem reason I can not change the name of the new tab. it wont accept my changed, eventhough I can type another name in it seems it does not change it.

    What could be wrong?

  2. You could always try again. Deleting it with the red minus sign and then create another one (after having deleted it). Otherwise I just tried creating a 'new tab' and I was able to name it how I wanted without any issues like you describe.
     
    By the way, I'm pretty sure that before adding content or widgets as they seem to call them at WebWag you cannot change the name of your page/tab. You add content by clicking on the + button, which is to the right of the word 'New Tab', and I frankly didn't see it the first time...
    So if your page is blank and has no content then you can't change the name. It's most probably considered logical by whoever did the code for that part of the system ! 😉
     

    Hope this helps in some way 🙂

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