New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

michal frackowiak 1193829255|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Wikidot rapidly grows so does our enthusiasm for making it better and better all over the time. This time it's about themes.

If you like the look of our homepage you can easily apply it to your wiki! The new theme is called "Shiny" and you can enable it by going to Site Manager » Appearance » Themes on your wikis.

We have also polished the well-known Webbish theme and set it as the default theme for all new sites. If you have been using the Webbish theme — we have renamed it to Webbish (old), so you might want to upgrade to the new Webbish (current) to refresh your layout a bit.

If you happen to have a break — we highly recommend The Coffeetime Wiki, a great resource for any coffee enthusiast. After exploring this Wiki we are tempted to try roasting coffee ourselves!

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Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
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Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

WhiteKnight82 1193916824|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Great. I'm using the new "Shiny" theme now. Excellent contrast!

How can I customize it further like by replacing the top banner or the size/position of the sub-heading/tag-line?

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

Gabrys 1193931736|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

It's all explained in Community or Handbook or both. Just search for it a bit.

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Piotr Gabryjeluk
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Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

irondello 1193942994|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

The new "Shiny" theme is fantastic. I really love it. Thanks!!

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

PizzaGeek 1194023305|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Is it just me, or are other having problems with the top navagation menu not staying open with the new 'shiny" theme? When I hover over the menu text, the sub menu drops down, but as soon as I move my mouse down to make a selection, the sub menu collapses. Changing to other themes makes this problem go away. I'm using IE7 (I won't be able to test with other browsers until I get home from work tonight).

-Ed

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

Gabrys 1194029097|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks a lot! It's fixed now.

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Piotr Gabryjeluk
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Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

WhiteKnight82 1194048975|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

My table width issues were to do with the embedded stuff set too wide plus the odd image also too wide. All nice and cosy now. I also reduced the table style margin attribute to -5 px which has closed up the space around the table edge a bit more.

probs with my setup

aalu webmaster 1195484715|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

For some reason, I can’t see the comments I am posting on my wiki. It just takes me to a blank page that is default names “thread”. What am I doing wrong?

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

Craig Macomber 1195515126|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Maybe the thread page got deleted. If so create the page and add the code:

[[module ForumThread]]
[!-- please do not alter this page if you want to keep your forum working --]

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

francis A 1197599816|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and… time for coffee!

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

francis A 1200618782|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

how can i gate the ryt website??

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

Simon Lacoste-Julien 1253575442|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, a friend of mine is having issue with the "Shiny" theme - see a screenshot. He is using Firefox 3.5.2 on Linux. The webpage that we are attempting to display can be found here. It displays fine on IE7 and Firefox 3.5.3 on my Windows Vista laptop; and I also tried with Firefox 3.0.x on my linux desktop with no problem (apart that the search bar overlaps with the title for this one). Any idea how to resolve this (apart changing theme - I really like the Shiny theme!)?

Re: New "Shiny" theme for your wiki, better "Webbish" layout and... time for coffee!

leiger 1253769965|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, a friend of mine is having issue with the "Shiny" theme - see a screenshot. He is using Firefox 3.5.2 on Linux. The webpage that we are attempting to display can be found here. It displays fine on IE7 and Firefox 3.5.3 on my Windows Vista laptop; and I also tried with Firefox 3.0.x on my linux desktop with no problem (apart that the search bar overlaps with the title for this one). Any idea how to resolve this (apart changing theme - I really like the Shiny theme!)?

It works fine for me.

If you have to change the theme, but like the Shiny theme, perhaps you could consider using the Too Shiny theme by Gabrys? =)

Hopefully that theme doesn't have the same compatibility issues as the regular Shiny theme seems to have for your friend.

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