The Natural Skin

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
TopicActions	configure the actions used to manipulate topics	SiteTopicActions
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
Menu	navigation tabs above the topic area	SiteMenu
Links	this is a sub-component of the SideBar component to plug in navigation links within	SiteLinks, WebLinks, WebLinks
HtmlHead	additional stuff to be put into the html head, like javascript and/or css	SiteHtmlHead
BottmBar	customize the content at the bottom area of a page	SiteBottomBar
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

Documentation

• NatSkinConfiguration
• NatSkinFAQ
• NatSkinTypography
• NatSkinPlugin

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.

Test if installed: click here

Set this in your SitePreferences:

   * Set SKIN = nat

to make the setting permanent.

Dependencies

Name	Version	Description
Foswiki::Contrib::CopyContrib	>=2.0	Required
Foswiki::Contrib::FamFamFamContrib	>=2075	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::AutoTemplatePlugin	>=2.01	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::BreadCrumbsPlugin	>=4318	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::CaptchaPlugin	>=2.0.0	Optional
Foswiki::Plugins::DBCachePlugin	>=1	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::FilterPlugin	>=3491	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::FlexWebListPlugin	>=3493	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::GridLayoutPlugin	>=1.00	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::ImagePlugin	>=2.40	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin	>=5.00	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::ListyPlugin	>=1	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::MetaCommentPlugin	>=2.80	Optional
Foswiki::Plugins::MimeIconPlugin	>=1	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::MultiLingualPlugin	>=2.00	Optional
Foswiki::Plugins::NatEditPlugin	>=8.00	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::NatSkinPlugin	>=3.99_004	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::PageOptimizerPlugin	>=0.10	Optional
Foswiki::Plugins::RedDotPlugin	>=1	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::RenderPlugin	>=3644	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::TopicInteractionPlugin	>=1340	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::WebLinkPlugin	>=1	Required
Foswiki::Plugins::ZonePlugin	>=3.1	Required. required for Foswiki < 1.1

Skin Info

Skin Author:	Michael Daum
Copyright ©:	2003-2015, Michael Daum http://michaeldaumconsulting.com
Description:	Userfriendly Foswiki skin providing a flexible theming engine for professional webdesigns
Base Name:	nat
Screenshot:
Change History:
17 Jul 2015:	added compatibility with Foswiki-2.0; added new topic creator supporting Foswiki:Extensions/WikiWorkbenchContrib TopicTypes; faster implementation of WebTopicList based on Foswiki:Extensions/DBCachePlugin; now depending on Foswiki:Extensions/ListyPlugin for the my-sidebar feature; now depending on Foswiki:Extensions/WebFontsContrib for better typography; dynamic menu for mobile devices; added support for mega menus using the natMegaMenu css class; better seo by supporting Open Graph meta data; nicer change-form dialog supporting WikiWorkbenchContrib 3.00; improved child-topics dialog displaying topic titles properly; added natedit settings to eaily switch on/off wysiwyg mode per topic; rationalized templates for topic actions to ease configuration of icons
27 Feb 2015:	final 4.00 which comes with the new customato theme
29 Aug 2013:	third beta
12 Dec 2013:	second beta
14 Mar 2013:	first beta of new release
25 Jun 2003:	Initial version