Comments on: Deki Wiki skinning http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/09/deki-wiki-skinning/ Blogging new enterprise software, mashups, and the application integration platform we develop: Deki Wiki. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:19:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ed http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/09/deki-wiki-skinning/#comment-1693 Ed Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:59:08 +0000 http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/09/deki-wiki-skinning/#comment-1693 I welcome additional documentation, samples, new skins and support for skinning standards. I think the ability to easily customize the look and feel of a web site is crucial to the success of the platform behind it. One of the reasons why WordPress is so popular as a blogging platform is because of the wide variety of themes available. I use LifeType for my blogging site, which I think is superior to WordPress in many ways, but the theme offerings are a drop in the ocean compared to WordPress and it does not get the recognition it should. One of the complaints I hear and have about Mediawiki is that all of the sites that use it look the same and Mediawiki is not that attractive to begin with. Mozilla has been able to create a nice skin around it, but otherwise I have not seen too many other examples. I had downloaded Deuce via SVN just a week prior to this post. It's so close to being done. I like the extra nuances, such as, the counts at the top of how many attachments and comments there are, as well as, the page stats and links to the page. Different color themes will be nice. Glad to hear that it is near completion For theme developers, one of the most helpful tools I have come across for identifying the CSS within an existing page is the Firebug extension for Firefox. It's awesome. And if you work on a Mac , Panic's Coda and MacRabbit CSSEdit are excellent CSS tools. I welcome additional documentation, samples, new skins and support for skinning standards. I think the ability to easily customize the look and feel of a web site is crucial to the success of the platform behind it. One of the reasons why WordPress is so popular as a blogging platform is because of the wide variety of themes available. I use LifeType for my blogging site, which I think is superior to WordPress in many ways, but the theme offerings are a drop in the ocean compared to WordPress and it does not get the recognition it should.

One of the complaints I hear and have about Mediawiki is that all of the sites that use it look the same and Mediawiki is not that attractive to begin with. Mozilla has been able to create a nice skin around it, but otherwise I have not seen too many other examples.

I had downloaded Deuce via SVN just a week prior to this post. It’s so close to being done. I like the extra nuances, such as, the counts at the top of how many attachments and comments there are, as well as, the page stats and links to the page. Different color themes will be nice. Glad to hear that it is near completion

For theme developers, one of the most helpful tools I have come across for identifying the CSS within an existing page is the Firebug extension for Firefox. It’s awesome. And if you work on a Mac , Panic’s Coda and MacRabbit CSSEdit are excellent CSS tools.

]]> By: Aaron Fulkerson http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/09/deki-wiki-skinning/#comment-1683 Aaron Fulkerson Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:40:33 +0000 http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/09/deki-wiki-skinning/#comment-1683 Wait. I thought Deuce was vapor. ;-) Wait. I thought Deuce was vapor. ;-)

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