PatternSkin is provides developed to provide a CSS based default look and feel for TWiki - flexible and W3C-compliant. 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.
PatternSkinCustomization - how to configure page elements
PatternSkinCssCookbook - how to customize the visual style
PatternSkin has been tested successfully on the following browsers:
Not tested, but will probably work (let me know):
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.
PatternSkin.zip
in your twiki installation directory 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:
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 %PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/layout.css * Set TWIKISTYLEURL = %PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/style.css %PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/style.css * Set TWIKICOLORSURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/colors.css
NOTE: customization of these values should be done in Main.TWikiPreferences
If this still does not work, contact the administrator who installs skins.
For further troubleshooting and feedback, go to TWiki:Plugins/PatternSkinDev. Report bugs in the Support web.
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 either:
layout.css
and style.css
attachment files for this topic (upload updated versions) TWIKILAYOUTURL
and TWIKISTYLEURL
to other attachments, perhaps in another topic (your new skin topic?) See for practical details: PatternSkinCustomization
The CSS classes that PatternSkin uses are documented in PatternSkinCss.
See: PatternSkinCustomization, PatternSkinPalette?
Description: | Provides TWiki's a CSS based default look and feel skin; CSS based, for TWiki - flexible and W3C-compliant W3C? -compliant |
Screenshot: | |
Base Preview: Name: | pattern Preview with this skin |
Skin Author: Base Name: | TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens pattern |
Skin Version: Author: | 28 Aug 2004 (v1.0.9) TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens |
History: Skin Version: | 15 Jan 2006 (v2.0.6) |
28 History: Aug 2004: | v.1.0.9 - CAIRO RELEASE VERSION - Removed twikiTopic div from attach template |
24 Aug 2004: 15 Jan 2006: | v.1.0.8 v.2.0.6 - Fix for disabled TablePlugin; added TWiki 4.1.0 (Edinburgh) RELEASE VERSION plain.pattern.tmpl |
23 Aug 2004: 26 Sep 2006: | v.1.0.7 v.2.0.5 - Change to checkboxes in Fixed form background colors edit and preview screen; removed REVINFO at bottom; style changes |
22 Aug 2004: Jul 2006: | v.1.0.6b v.2.0.4 - Removed files from zip that are now Refactored info in colors.css; fixed textarea color part of the TWiki distribution; removed .DS_Store files |
17 Aug 2004: 26 Jun 2006: | v.1.0.6 v.2.0.3 - Support for twikiMoved css class TWiki 4.0.3 (Dakar) RELEASE VERSION |
17 Aug 2004: 31 Jan 2006: | v.1.0.5 v.2.0.0 - Fix for not showing SEARCHSTRING TWiki 4.0.0 (Dakar) RELEASE VERSION |
16 28 Aug 2004: | v.1.0.4 v.1.0.9 - Fixes search results layout with TWiki 3.0 (Cairo) RELEASE VERSION noheader="on" |
14 08 Aug 2004: | v.1.0.3 - Update Initial version (v1.0.0) to attach template, css fix to edit template |
14 Dependencies: Aug 2004: | v.1.0.2 - Fixes print template, table paddings in topics, minor changes to style.css TWiki:Plugins/TwistyContrib (automatically supported by Dakar) |
13 Aug Skin Home: 2004: | v.1.0.1 - Updated /data/TWiki/WebLeftBarPersonalTemplate and style.css http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkin |
08 Feedback: Aug 2004: | Initial version (v1.0.0) http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkinDev |
Dependencies: Download: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkin |
Skin Home: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkin |
Feedback: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkinDev |
Download: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkin |
See also Further reading on this page.
Other skins:
Leave remarks, suggestions and other feedback in TWiki:Plugins.PatternSkinDev.
-- TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens - 28 Aug 2004
Attachment | Action | Size | Date | Who | Comment |
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i_arrow_down.gif | manage | 0.1 K | 16 Aug 2004 - 05:41 | ArthurClemens? | Icon: down arrow; used for Table Of Contents |
layout.css | manage | 1.8 K | 25 Aug 2004 - 12:20 | ArthurClemens? | Layout: positioning of page elements |
style.css | manage | 25.9 K | 30 Aug 2004 - 00:06 | ArthurClemens? | Style: appearance: margins, fonts, colors |
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