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Welcome to TikiToki's admin interface. Here, we have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to create your own interactive timelines.
You will most likely want to do one of the following:
Click on the Create new timeline option and enter the required information. Check out the contextual help here if you are not sure what to enter.
You have already created a timeline. Congratulations! Start editing it by clicking on its title or the 'edit' option in the timeline list.
You can delete a timeline by clicking on the 'delete' button to the right of the timeline's title.
Minimise this guide by clicking the Close help tab to the left. More detailed help can be found using the Help option in the main menu.
There are four main things you will probably want to do:
Everything from a timeline's title, colour scheme and date range to its background image and intro text can be changed in the Settings tab.
Choose the Stories tab to create and edit stories on your timeline. You can edit existing stories by clicking on the story titles in the list. Or you can create a new story by clicking on the Create new story link.
Categories allow you to colour code your timeline stories. Select the Categories tab for more info.
Click the Save to file or Save as new file buttons at the bottom left of the timeline. Saving is disabled in demo version.
This is where you add content to the stories that appear on your timeline. We have separated this into three sections:
Here you enter basic info about your story, including its title, the date it occurred and some introductory text. You can also choose the story's category (add categories via the Categories tab) and also add a link to an external web page.
Connect images, videos and audio to your story via the Story media tab. These will be turned into image and video galleries in the popup panel that appears when visitors click on the story in your timeline.
This is an experimental new service that allows you to create stories (events) from external feeds. We currently support YouTube, Twitter and RSS.
You can import multiple feeds into a single timeline, for instance to make a timeline containing the latest tweets from your friends - try combining this with our Category Band view and/or Equal Spacing mode (see Settings tab).
You can also create a timeline from your blog posts using our RSS feed service, or make a video timeline using a variety of YouTube feeds.
Have fun making feed based timelines but bear in mind we rely on external services to provide feed integration and cannot therefore guarantee its reliability.
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We are having an issue with Flickr images appearing on www.tiki-toki.com. We have therefore disabled Flickr integration while we try to sort this out.
In the meantime, if you have a webserver, we recommend that you upload your images there and then link to them in the media source field. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Choose whether you want the image aligned to the top, bottom or centre. Or drag image to the position you want below.
Choose whether you want the image aligned to the left, right or centre. Or drag image to the position you want below.
1. Download, install and run the free Paparazzi** website screenshot app.
2. Enter the following url into Paparazzi and take a website screenshot.
3. Open the image that Paparazzi has created in the Preview app. Rotate the image and save.
4. Now open the rotated image in Safari and select the print option. In the print panel, adjust the scale to fit your needs, and then save as a PDF.
5. You can now use the PDF to print out the timeline over multiple pages.
1. Download, install and run the free Webshot** screenshot app.
2. Enter the following url into Webshot and take a website screenshot.
3. You now have an image of the timeline. If you want a PDF too, download and install the free pdfcreator** app.
4. Now open the image created in Step 2 in MS Paint and rotate the image ninety degrees so it is portrait.
5. Go to 'Page setup' under the Print menu and ensure that orientation is 'portrait' and scaling is 'adjust to 100%'.
6. Now choose MS Paint's print option and choose 'pdfcreator' as the printer. This will create a PDF of the timeline.
7. You can now use the PDF to print out the timeline over multiple pages.
*Timelines must be a maximum of 50,000 pixels wide for this to work. You may need to zoom out or use the Equal Spacing modes in order to get your timeline below 50,000 pixels wide.
**We cannot guarantee the reliability of external apps. Use at your own risk.