xen, you seem smart and long winded (academic? student?) As someone not associated with TW in any way, who donates my time/ thoughts/opinions This is a active and helpful group, who is lucky to have the support of ELS, FND, Mark S., PMario, Mans & many others I can't think of off he top of my head.
I would be gentle on the criticism, might be the same person you are asking for help on the next post. Looking forward to your contributions, Good luck with your project, Mike On Mar 28, 11:33 am, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > standard TW theme or *shudder* those in the theme package of > > tiddlytools.com. > > grrr... :-) > > I have had *many* compliments on the overall appearance of > TiddlyTools, so clearly aesthetic sensibilities can vary greatly. > > Keep in mind that a 'theme' is really the juxtaposition of template > and CSS definitions for layouts and colors (and sometimes images), and > it is easy (dare I say *trivial*) to modifiy or eliminate many of the > specific styles and layouts to 'fine tune' the theme to best suit your > personal tastes. > > For example, if you find the 'photo wallpaper' backgrounds too > distracting, you can edit the !StyleSheet section of a theme to remove > (or simply comment out) the "background-image" attribute/value. > > Adjustments to TW default layout and color definitions are stored in > [[StyleSheetAdjustments]]. Note that, although the color defintions > in this tiddler using static hexadecimal color numbers, you can also > use transclusion from the ColorPalette tiddler to apply colors based > on custom-defined symbolic names, rather than hard-coded values. For > example, to set the color of the tiddler toolbar text you could write: > .toolbar {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];} > > Then, if you subsequently change the "TertiaryLight" color slice > definition, the toolbar text color will automatically be adjusted to > match. You can modify the default slices in the ColorPalette, or add > slices of your own (using any naming scheme you want). > > To make it MUCH easier to construct color palettes... you can use this > handy tool: > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#PaletteMaker > > Also, to see a simplified, clean layout that is based on the default > TW with a number of layout adjustments, see: > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/quickstart/basics.html > > enjoy, > -e > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
