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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

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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.

Supported browsers

PatternSkin has been tested successfully on the following browsers:

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:

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 

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.

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 either:

See for practical details: PatternSkinCustomization
The CSS classes that PatternSkin uses are documented in PatternSkinCss.

Customization

See: PatternSkinCustomization, PatternSkinPalette?

Further reading

Skin Info

Description: Provides TWiki's a CSS based default look and feel skin; CSS based, for TWiki - flexible and W3C? -compliant
Screenshot: Click for full screen imageClick for full screen image
Base Preview: Name: pattern Preview with this topic
Skin Author: Base Name: TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens pattern
Skin Version: Author: 28 Aug 2004 (v1.0.9) TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens
History: Skin Version:   31 Jan 2006 (v2.0.0)
28 History: Aug 2004: v.1.0.9   - CAIRO RELEASE VERSION - Removed twikiTopic div from attach template
24 Aug 2004: 31 Jan 2006: v.1.0.8 v.2.0.0 - Fix for disabled DAKAR RELEASE VERSION TablePlugin; added plain.pattern.tmpl
23 28 Aug 2004: v.1.0.7 v.1.0.9 - Change to checkboxes CAIRO RELEASE VERSION in edit and preview screen; removed REVINFO at bottom; style changes
22 08 Aug 2004: v.1.0.6b - Removed Initial version (v1.0.0) files from zip that are now part of the TWiki distribution; removed .DS_Store files
17 Dependencies: Aug 2004: v.1.0.6 - Support for twikiMoved css class TWiki:Plugins/TwistyContrib (automatically supported by Dakar)
17 Aug Skin Home: 2004: v.1.0.5 - Fix for not showing SEARCHSTRING http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkin
16 Feedback: Aug 2004: v.1.0.4 - Fixes search results layout with noheader="on" http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkinDev
14 Download: Aug 2004: v.1.0.3 - Update to attach template, css fix to edit template http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PatternSkin
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 (v1.0.0)
Dependencies:  
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

Related topics

See also Further reading on this page.

Other skins:

Feedback

Leave remarks, suggestions and other feedback in TWiki:Plugins.PatternSkinDev.

-- TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens - 28 Aug 2004

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