NatSkin improves your Foswiki experience by bringing together some of the most useful
features from different plugins in a consistent way. NatSkin comes with a modern
web design that improves readability of your wiki content as well as easing the way
you interact with it as a wiki author and consumer.
NatSkin also serves as a foundation for additional web designs. So you won't need to
reinvent the wheel on every project over and over again.
NatSkin allows you to choose between several kinds of page layouts. All of the
predefined themes come with support for a 1, 2 and 3 columns designs in both a
fluid and a fixed page layout.
NatSkin provides a much improved usability when navigating among webs as well as
when interacting with wiki content.
Screenshots
Theme switcher
You can change design and layout aspects of every page as you like with just a few clicks.
Configure the skin by changing:
- the theme installed on your system,
- the style part of a theme,
- the variation added to the theme's style,
- the sidebar location,
- the page layout being either a fixed-width, or a fluid design or
- the navigation elements as displayed at the top of the page.
The underlying templates that generate the pages are arranged in a flexible and
manageable way to facilitate easy "skin mix-in", that is, overriding specific parts of
the templates by using the NatSkin as a parent skin to create template modifications.
WebComponents
Name |
Description |
Default |
Menu |
navigation tabs above the topic area |
SiteMenu |
SideBar |
a configurable navigation bar |
SiteSideBar |
RightBar |
when using two sidebars, this component holds the right sidebar, while the SideBar component is displayed on the left. |
SiteRightBar |
Links |
this is a sub-component of the SideBar component to plug in navigation links within |
SiteLinks, WebLinks, WebLinks |
BottmBar |
customize the content at the bottom area of a page |
SiteBottomBar |
HtmlHead |
additional stuff to be put into the html head, like javascript and/or css |
SiteHtmlHead |
HtmlBottom |
similar to WebHtmlHead but putting additional stuff just before the closing </body> tag of a page; this is useful when adding third party javascript code to a website, like tracking code |
|
TopicActions |
configure the actions used to manipulate topics |
SiteTopicActions |
Documentation
Installation Instructions
You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server.
Open configure, and open the "Extensions" section. Use "Find More Extensions" to get a list of available extensions. Select "Install".
If you have any problems, or if the extension isn't available in
configure
, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See
http://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.
Dependencies
Name | Version | Description |
---|
Foswiki::Contrib::FamFamFamContrib | >=2075 | Required. |
Foswiki::Plugins::AutoTemplatePlugin | >=2.01 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::BreadCrumbsPlugin | >=4318 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::DBCachePlugin | >=1 | Optional |
Foswiki::Plugins::MimeIconPlugin | >=1 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::FilterPlugin | >=3491 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::FlexWebListPlugin | >=3493 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::ImagePlugin | >=6307 | Optional |
Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin | >=4.70 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::NatEditPlugin | >=1993 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::NatSkinPlugin | >=3.99_004 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::RenderPlugin | >=3644 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::TopicInteractionPlugin | >=1340 | Required |
Foswiki::Plugins::WebLinkPlugin | >=1 | Optional |
Foswiki::Plugins::PageOptimizerPlugin | >=0.10 | Optional |
Foswiki::Plugins::ZonePlugin | >=3.1 | Required. required for Foswiki < 1.1 |
Skin Info