Thanks, that helps.
TOF.
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 22:57:19 UTC+1, Dan wrote:
>
> The problem is the skins on the site are all compatible with the 3.xx
> series. The 4.xx series uses a different format--so the skins need to be
> updated. :( Fortunately, the task is not too difficult. Here are a few
> basic steps that should get you started:
>
> 1) Change code.skin.butterfly to code.skin.butterfly.html and put in your
> pages folder.
> 2) Change skin variables like $$color to {color}. This was to make them
> more consistent with other vars in BoltWire. If you want to you can add
> custom variables as "field: value" pairs in page code.skin.butterfly which
> then can be called into the skin as needed, like title, description, or
> whatever. This gives you some nice flexibility in modifying the skin.
> 3) Change code.style.butterfly to code.skin.butterfly.css. Better yet,
> just move it to your files folder or somewhere else and just call it
> style.css and link to it in the skin like you would in a normal website and
> get rid of the <<style>> tag in the html file.
>
> There may be some other things to update but these were the main ones I
> can recall right off. See if this doesn't get you up and running.
>
> As for not reverting back to the default skin when a skin is not
> found--I'll look into that. BoltWire should back out of a faulty setting
> more gracefully than what you experienced. Sounds like a good bug catch.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
> P.S. Note most of the site is still 3.xx friendly and not yet 4.xx ready.
> That includes plugins, etc. The 4.xx code is much improved but most of our
> developers are still doing 3.xx sites. Unfortunately, don't know when we
> will make that leap and make it happen.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:41 AM, TheOldFellow
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Newbie, so bear this in mind. I installed Boltwire 4.01 yesterday, and
>> also extracted Butterfly skin as instructed. Editing Site.config to change
>> skin: default to skin: butterfly give me 'skin not found' and hitting
>> PREVIEW. Annoying enough, but preview is actually changing the file, and
>> the only way back is to edit it in the filestore.
>>
>> What have I missed?
>>
>> TOF.
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