[pmwiki-users] skin template advice?

Fri Oct 18 21:49:03 CDT 2013

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I enjoy designing skins but reserve this method for my personal use as posting these types of skins on PmWiki.org would require people to create new pages.

I searched for MouseSkin on pmwiki.org but couldn't find it. Was a page for this skin never created?

Regards,
Rev. Ian MacGregor
http://www.ianmacgregor.net

> On Oct 18, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 18, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ian MacGregor <ardchoille42 at me.com> wrote:
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>> I am not always able to access my server via SFTP or a shell so I thought it would be easier for me to manage things as much as possible from the wiki. So, I have implemented my skin template as follows:
>> 
>>  <body>
>>    <div id="wrapper">
>>      <div id="header">
>>        <!--PageHeaderFmt-->
>>        <!--wiki:Site.WebsiteHeader-->
>>        <!--/PageHeaderFmt-->
>>      </div>
>>      <div id="sitenav">
>>        <!--wiki:Site.SiteNavBar-->
>>      </div>
>>      <div id="content">
>>        <div id="pageactions">
>>          <!--PageActionFmt-->
>>          <!--wiki:Site.PageActions-->
>>        </div>
>>        <!--PageTitleFmt-->
>>        <h2>{$Title}</h2>
>>        <!--PageText-->
>>      </div>
>>    </div>
>>    <div id="footer">
>>      <!--PageFooterFmt-->
>>      <!--wiki:Site.WebsiteFooter-->
>>    </div>
>>    <!--HTMLFooter-->
>>  </body>
>> 
>> Is there anything wrong with this as long as I have the correct pages called from the .tmpl file?  I have designed a skin for my personal use and it seems to work as desired. However, I would like to know if this is a bad idea in the long run.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Rev. Ian MacGregor
>> http://www.ianmacgregor.net
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> This is very close to what I've done with MouseSkin. Nearly all aspects of the site's content is defined in wiki pages. It's sometimes a wee bit arcane (as the example with the menu you just posted prior) but it's not really hard to work with. Feel free to check MouseSkin if you want for examples, but also rolling your own is quite fun and instructive.
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