Ohia and Underground Themes
Fri 05 of Sep, 2008 02:54 GMT-0000 - (69964 Reads) -Two new themes, Ohia and Underground, have been added for TikiWiki 2. Ohia is an original design, and Underground is an adaptation of a design by Styleshout.
{MAKETOCBOX(float=>right)}{MAKETOCBOX}{TWOCOLORTITLEBOX(title1=>Welcome to, title2=> Tikipedia!, title1color=>#cf7606, title2color=>#005288)}Tikipedia is a new theme based on Mediawiki's Monobook style, also used at Wikipedia.org. The Tikipedia theme for Tiki CMS was done to illustrate the flexibility of Tiki's design capabilities, and just because the Monobook style is very cool.{TWOCOLORTITLEBOX}
{DIVFLOATING(align=>left, background=>#f9f9f9, border=>1px solid #aaa, width=>340px, float=>left, padding=>4px, margin=>8px, clear=>none)}{DIVFLOATING(align=>right, background=>#f9f9f9, border=>1px solid #aaa, width=>240px, float=>right, padding=>4px, margin=>8px, clear=>none)} {DIVFLOATING}The original MediaWiki site, with great visual design and functionality. (This box is an example of another original plugin used twice here, nested. DIVFLOATING has different parameters than the default DIV plugin: align, background, border, width, float, padding, margin, and clear). The text size is set with the TAG plugin.{DIVFLOATING}Monobook, the Mediawiki default theme, and the Mediawiki page layout in general have some interesting characteristics. For one thing, the page content area itself is pretty bare, with function links and so on moved to peripheral areas.
To replicate this in the Tikipedia theme, some of Tiki's wiki page controls have been moved to tabs above the content area and some to a Mediawiki-style toolbox, styled like a module, in the left-side column. This "module" (not a real Tiki module, but a template styled to look like one) is called only on wiki pages. This is where the links for 3-D browser, print, save, monitor, backlinks, language, and so on are located. Also, the page author information is moved from the wiki page area itself to a modified bottom bar that is loaded only on wiki pages.
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Rather than having the usual side-column log-in module, this theme places a link to the log-in screen at the top right of the page, in keeping with the MediaWiki layout. In order not to interfere with the normal log-in module display when other themes are chosen, Tikipedia uses CSS to prevent the log-in box from displaying in the side column.
Page-top tabs are also used on image gallery, file gallery, directory, and tracker pages. In some cases, the templates needed a small edit to move the page-bar above the pagetitle, but most of the details were taken care of in the CSS file.
This theme includes several plugins to emulate the look and functionality of the Monobook theme at Mediawiki sites, but that can be used with other themes. These include: {THUMBDIV(align=>right, width=>90px, imgid=>1, title=>earth, alt=>earth, thumbwidth=>80, thumbheight=>60)}This is an example of the THUMBDIV plugin.{THUMBDIV}
See Tikipedia_development for some notes on the process.
Please see Customizing_Tikipedia for information on customizing/personalizing this theme.
After a little more final testing and feedback, the theme will soon be available for downloading at the New Themes file gallery
Two new themes, Ohia and Underground, have been added for TikiWiki 2. Ohia is an original design, and Underground is an adaptation of a design by Styleshout.
The Tikipedia theme — for a TikiWiki with a Wikipedia look — has been updated for the lastest version of Tiki. New features include the options of a right-side column and top menu, and configuration of site logo through the Look & Feel admin panel. All other new features of Tiki 2 are supported.
The Faulkner theme by Demus Design is now available for TikiWiki 1.10beta.
Warm tones and serif text are highlights. See the theme demonstrated at zukakakina.com.
The Candii Clouds theme is available for TikiWiki 1.10 beta. The original Candii Clouds theme is by Mark Schulz (elpirtxis), released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. For TikiWiki the theme uses one table for page layout (necessary due to IE7's lack of CSS display:table support). The theme can be downloaded from the Candii Clouds file gallery. Until this site is updated to version 1.10, see Candii Clouds in action at zukakakina.com.
Andreas09 is ready for TikiWiki 1.10. The files can be downloaded from gallery 13. This is an update of the port of the Andreas Viklund design. See a demo at zukakakina.com/Andreas09.
The theme files are also at mods.tikiwiki.org so the theme can be installed using the Admin Mods feature if that is available at the site (shell access needed).
Like the other updated or new themes for 1.10, Andreas09 supports the Look & Feel options and other new features. The theme files will be updated regularly as Tiki 1.10 progresses.
The Andreas08 theme is available for TikiWiki 1.10. See a demo at zukakakina.com/Andreas08. The files can be downloaded from gallery 17. This is a port of the classic design by Andreas Viklund.
The theme files have also been added to mods.tikiwiki.org so the theme can be installed using the Admin Mods feature if that is available at the site (shell access needed).
Andreas08 fully supports Look & Feel (Site Identity) options, etc., and all the other new features in Tiki 1.10.
The Mittwoch theme, which has been in use at doc.tikiwiki.org for awhile, is now ready for downloading. Mittwoch was originally a GPLed design by Alexander Hanke for Joomla. The Tiki version of the theme has color- and fontsize-changing buttons for visual options.
This theme uses Luci's *litecss layout method so has no page layout tables. Additionally, in place of the standard module templates, there are table-free templates for side boxes whose titles are h3 headers and have ordered or unordered lists for list-type content.
An adaptation of the Fluid Index theme done originally for WordPress blogs is available now for Tiki CMS/Groupware. The theme is another one using the *litecess layout method. It features some neat styling details on blog pages in particular. The theme files can be downloaded from this site; the current version has been tested with Tiki up to version 1.9.8.1.
This is an adaptation for Tiki CMS of Andreas Viklund's freely released Andreas09 design. The theme uses luci's lite css layout method and so is source-ordered and table-free. Going beyond the great design of the original, this adaptation has a center content column that widens to accomodate large images, tables, etc. As with all Tiki themes, one-, two-, and three-column layouts are possible.
The page background and menu hover images can be easily changed. Alternative images are included.
After delays getting things to work properly with Internet Explorer 7, the theme files are finally finished and can be downloaded here. Please report any problems in the themes.tikiwiki.org forum.
A new theme — Twist — has been contributed by gg and can be downloaded now. The Twist theme visually floats the Tiki pages on a dark blue background, and has custom graphics for standard menus. (Since themes.tw.o normally uses PHP Layers menus in the left column, please visit the Twist and Site Identity demo pages to see the Twist menu style.)
It's taken a lot longer than expected, but the Zuka theme can now be downloaded from the Zuka file gallery at themes.tw.o. No registration or log-in is needed to download the files. (Update 2: Zuka_v1.1 is now available. It has better IE7 compatibility and includes the earlier fixes and updates.)
Zuka uses a source-ordered, no-tables, liquid layout based on luci's lite layout, similar to what is used by the simple.css Tiki theme.
The theme archive includes information about installation and customizing. Also see themes.tw.o/Zuka. The InterTiki user authorization system has been working off and on. If there are any questions or problems to report about Zuka installation and use, and if it isn't possible to log in here, please use the tw.o forum. The theme is released under the LGPL license and will soon be committed to Tiki CVS.
Undertaken to demonstrate the flexibility of Tiki CMS/Groupware page layout, the Tikipedia theme uses slightly modified Tiki template files, CSS, and new wiki plugins to emulate the well-known Mediawiki Monobook style. The theme package can be downloaded now from the New Themes gallery. Tikipedia_v1.0 has been tested with Tiki 1.9.2 and just-released 1.9.3.1.
Just in time for the approaching winter (OK, in the Southern Hemisphere), the Snow theme for Tiki CMS is available for downloading. This is a full-width, three-column design with snowflake-pattern page backgrounds, module boxes, etc. A Flash .fla file is included for making a logo with a snowfall effect.
The Kubrick theme, originally created for WordPress and ported as GPLed software to nearly 30 CMS and blog scripts, is now available for Tiki. This clean and simple design has been very popular especially with bloggers. For Tiki, Kubrick can expand horizontally to accomodate large gallery images, tables, and other wide content.
This is a Tiki adaptation of the Planetfall theme originally done by rhuk for the Mambo CMS (now Joomla). This theme won mamboportal.com's theme competition and was included as a default style for Mambo. Planetfall is released under the GPL license. See Planetfall for more information.
To showcase the page layout and style flexibility of Tiki CMS, the themes.tikiwiki.org site has been created to offer theme demos, discussions and downloads. Tiki users are encouraged to contribute their creations, and are welcomed to the site to get advice or to help others with problems.