[Dev] new wiki skins

Kaitlin Duck Sherwood ducky at osafoundation.org
Fri Jun 25 11:07:17 PDT 2004


OSAF Wiki users:

I just switched the default skin on the wiki to a new one that should be 
more useful.  A discussion of the changes is way below.

I've tested on a number of different platforms and browsers, but haven't 
tested on Opera, Galleon, Konquerer, etc.  If you see something badly 
broken on your platform/browser, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.  It's very easy to 
revert to the old skin at a moment's notice.

FYI, if you don't want to print the sidebar, you can always get a page 
with minimal decoration by clicking on the "Printable" link (upper right 
area).

The skins are not completely done; there are some cosmetic changes that 
I know about.  For a list of known bugs, see:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Jungle/WikiSkinDevelopment

Even though the skins aren't perfect, it was felt that the skins were 
good enough and a big enough improvement over the old skins that it was 
worth putting them out now.  Expect to see improvements in the cosmetics 
over time. If you are a HTML CSS god or goddess, I would greatly 
appreciate some help!  See
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/HelpUs#skins
	
At some point, I hope to get a sessioning plug-in, which would allow you 
to choose


ASSORTED CHANGES

The new skin has a sidebar with commonly visited places.  The white 
inset has links that are useful for newcomers trying to get oriented; 
the other sidebar items have information useful for people with a bit 
more familiarity with the project.

The "GO" box -- which looked like a search box but wasn't -- is now a 
genuine search box.

"Changes" has moved from the top of the page to the bottom of the sidebar.

One of the most common questions I got was on how to create a page. 
"New" doesn't make a page, but now at least takes you to a page that 
tells you how.  Perhaps someday it will take you to a form that you fill 
out with the page name.

The links to different wikis -- which used to be at the upper right of 
the page -- are now moved over and color-coded.  (I also changed the 
colors slightly to give higher contrast.)

On the edit pages, the Forms have been moved over to the right to make 
it harder to click on them accidentally when trying to hit the "Preview" 
button.

Links for RSS feeds are now at the bottom of the page and not in the 
pageinfo boxes.

"More" has been split into different links for Move, Versions, and 
Reparent.  Those buttons take you to the same place that "More" did, but 
it makes it more apparent what you're supposed to do.  "Delete", by 
contrast, skips a step you formerly had to do.




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