Hi, See below
Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Edward, > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Edward Laptop > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >> Dear All >> >> Skinning is making good progress (thanks for advice!) >> >> I have begun to make a new panel for the main navigation which is to be >> fixed on all pages. >> >> I need some advice on the structure please. >> >> I understand what a space is, but not sure what I would use it for. I have >> to create a front page that has boxes that can be edited - so it has to >> have >> a different look to the rest of the pages. Should I create a new space for >> the other pages (or are they sections - calender, consortium partners, >> reports, forum etc...) you can see at >> http://www.4eyesdesign.co.uk/CAASTwiki02/ if it helps. >> > > > There are 2 main benefits I see from using a space : > > - You can group related pages together under the same URL (all your pages > in the Consortium space will read xwiki/bin/view/Consortium/PageName ) > - You can apply a skin at the space level, meaning that you could change > the color of your skin between your different spaces for instance > - You can create a homepage for each of your spaces > > From what I've seen the only customized page you really want to have is the > main page of your wiki. The ideal solution to your issue would be to use > Skin Extensions, but I'm not sure they're ready yet. Skin extensions are functional, in XE 1.5 and above. And they are damn useful ! See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Plugins/SkinExtensionsPlugin for documentation > In the meanwhile you > can define specific CSS classes in the skin of your wiki and use them only > on the homepage. Another, nastier solution would be to use <style> your CSS > here </style> items right on your homepage... > > > >> Would that mean that I could then create the different look that I need? >> > > > As I wrote above you can apply the same skin to all spaces or the skin of > your choice for each space. > > > >> Or is using spaces the wrong way - perhaps I need a new class??? (Have done >> faq tutorial, and have some experience of oop) >> >> > > I don't think you need to create a XWiki Class for skin-related issues. > > Hope this helps, > > Guillaume > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
