Pattern Skin

Page contents

• Screenshot
• Creating your own look
  • Template customization
  • Style sheet customization
  • Changing graphics
• Supported browsers
• Installation
  • Troubleshooting
• Skin Info
• Related topics

CSS based skin with 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.

Screenshot

Creating your own look

Template customization

PatternSkinCustomization - how to configure page elements

Style sheet customization

PatternSkinCssCookbook - how to customize the visual style

Changing graphics

The original Photoshop files of the skin graphics (mainly background images) are attached to PatternSkinGraphics.

Supported browsers

PatternSkin has been tested successfully on the following browsers:

• Windows
  • Internet Explorer 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5
  • Mozilla/Firefox 3.5, 2.0, 1.5
• Mac OS X
  • Safari 5.0.5, 3.0.2
  • Mozilla/Firefox 3.5, 2.0, 1.5
• *nix
  • Mozilla/Firefox 1.5

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.

• Download the ZIP file from the Skin Home page (see below)
• Unzip PatternSkin.zip in your twiki installation directory
• Test if installed: /bin/view/TWiki/PatternSkin?skin=pattern
• For skin activation see TWikiSkins

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 = /pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/layout.css
• TWIKISTYLEURL = /pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/style.css
• TWIKICOLORSURL = /pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/colors.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:

   * %SYSTEMWEB%.PatternSkin settings:
      * Set TWIKILAYOUTURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/PatternSkin/layout.css
      * Set TWIKISTYLEURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/PatternSkin/style.css
      * Set TWIKICOLORSURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/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 at TWikibug:PatternSkin.

Skin Info

Skin Author: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny Copyright: © 2004-2008 TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens © 2008-2013 TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny © 2004-2013 TWiki:TWiki.TWikiContributor License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Description: TWiki's base skin; CSS based, flexible and W3C-compliant Screenshot: Preview: Preview with this skin Base Name: pattern Skin Version: 2013-10-14

Dependencies: TWiki:Plugins/TwistyContrib (included in TWiki distribution) 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

• TWikiCss
• PatternSkinCss
• PatternSkinCssCookbook
• PatternSkinCssCookbookCenterPage
• PatternSkinCssCookbookEditTableStyle
• PatternSkinCssCookbookFonts
• PatternSkinCssCookbookNoLeftBar
• PatternSkinCssCookbookNoTopBar
• PatternSkinCustomization
• PatternSkinGraphics
• WebBottomBar
• WebLeftBar
• WebLeftBarCookbook
• WebLeftBarExample
• WebLeftBarLogin
• WebLeftBarPersonalTemplate
• WebLeftBarSearch
• WebLeftBarWebsList
• WebTopBar
• AdminDocumentationCategory

Other skins:

• TWikiSkins
• TWikiSkinBrowser
• TopMenuSkin