Pattern skin
PatternSkin is developed to provide a CSS based default look and feel for TWiki - flexible and W3C-compliant. Its layout and color scheme are designed to provide a nice, clean and productive
editing environment. For use in corporate or perhaps in personal websites it should be fairly easy to tune the looks or even create a PatternSkin-based new skin.
Screen Shot
Supported browsers
PatternSkin has been tested succesfully on the following browsers:
- Windows
- Internet Explorer 6.0, 5.5 (note: Explorer 5.0 is not supported: will function but shows visual quirks)
- Mozilla/Firefox
- Mac OS X
- Safari 1.2
- Mozilla/Firefox
Not tested, but will probably work (let me know):
Installation
Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this skin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the skin on the server where TWiki is running.
Note 2: PatternSkin is included with TWiki by default. Use the following instructions only if you are upgrading PatternSkin.
Troubleshooting
If you have set the SKIN variable setting to
pattern
and you still don't see the layout as on the
screenshot, a few settings in may have been disabled.
Check these variables here:
- TWIKILAYOUTURL = /twiki/pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/layout.css
- TWIKISTYLEURL = /twiki/pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/style.css
- SKIN = tagme, topmenu, pattern
If TWIKILAYOUTURL or TWIKISTYLEURL don't give a value or point to non-existing files, check in
TWikiPreferences that the following variables do exist and that they are set to on:
* %TWIKIWEB%.PatternSkin settings:
* Set TWIKILAYOUTURL = %PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/layout.css
* Set TWIKISTYLEURL = %PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/style.css
If this still does not work, contact the administrator who installs skins.
For further troubleshooting and feedback, go to
TWiki:Plugins/PatternSkinDev.
Creating your own look
It is easy to tune the look and feel of PatternSkin by changing the color and space (margin, padding) settings in the Style Sheet files.
You may also choose to radically change the look and create a PatternSkin-based new skin. This is easier than to create a skin by writing new template files; you can concentrate on how things should look instead of what elements should get displayed.
You can eiter:
- Change the
layout.css
and style.css
attachment files for this topic (upload updated versions)
- In TWikiPreferences, point the variables
TWIKILAYOUTURL
and TWIKISTYLEURL
to other attachments, perhaps in another topic (your new skin topic?)
If you want to change colors and white space of screen elements, modify
style.css
.
If you want to change the positioning of screen elements, modify
layout.css
.
See for practical details:
PatternSkinCustomization
The CSS classes that PatternSkin uses are documented in
PatternSkinCss.
Customization
See:
PatternSkinCustomization
Further reading
Skin Info
Description: |
Provides a CSS based default look and feel for TWiki - flexible and W3C-compliant |
Screenshot: |
|
Base Name: |
pattern |
Skin Author: |
TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens |
Skin Version: |
08 Aug 2004 (v1.000) |
Download PatternSkin: |
PatternSkin.zip Note: the CSS files in this topic may be more recent than the version in the zip file |
Change History: |
|
14 Aug 2004: |
v.1.0.3 - Update to attach template, css fix to edit template |
14 Aug 2004: |
v.1.0.2 - Fixes print template, table paddings in topics, minor changes to style.css |
13 Aug 2004: |
v.1.0.1 - Updated /data/TWiki/WebLeftBarPersonalTemplate and style.css |
08 Aug 2004: |
Initial version (v1.000) |
Dependencies: |
TablePlugin |
Skin Home: |
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkin |
Feedback: |
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkinDev |
Related topics
See also
Further reading on this page.
Other skins:
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TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens - 16 Aug 2004