Pattern Skin
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.
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.
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
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.
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