History: Snow
Preview of version: 13
This theme was originally inspired by the Mtechnik_Xmas PostNuke theme, but all the graphics are original (if you look closely but not too critically, the snowflake "arms" are - somewhat overlapping - a t-i-k-i from perimeter to center), and virtually all design details are new.
Download (for versions older than Tiki 5 - Snow is now included in the Tiki package.):
For Tiki 3, this theme uses the default *lite.css layout method, so no longer needs custom templates.
The Snow theme includes two options for the page-top graphics: a jpeg topbar image and Flash snowfall effect. These will have to be modified for use at new sites.
By default, the non-Flash tiki-top is used. To use a Flash file instead, rename templates/styles/snowfall/tiki-top_bar.tpl as templates/styles/snowfall/tiki-top_bar_noflash.tpl and rename templates/styles/snowfall/tiki-top_bar_flash.tpl to templates/styles/snowfall/tiki-top_bar.tpl. In other words, the theme comes with two files, either of which can be named tiki-top_bar.tpl to display the desired image/movie.
The Flash (.fla) file is from Flashkit.com where the description says to "use freely". I resized the .fla document, removed the button, and replaced the background image. Along with the default "Snow theme" .swf file, the .fla file is included with the theme so a personalized Flash movie can be made.
The .fla file should be edited in Macromedia Flash or other .fla editor. Select the background layer and click "Edit/Cut". Import a new image file to be the background; it should be the same size as the original background file (734px by 95px) to keep things simple. "Publish" the movie to create the new .swf file. If the dimensions of the file are changed, update the Flash version of tiki-top_bar.tpl file accordingly.
The non-Flash version of the page top can be done different ways. The default treatment is a background image (header-bg.jpg) that tiles the width of the page. A logo image (logo.jpg) is specified to be centered on top of that.
To make a custom logo image that works in this arrangement, use the background image as a background layer pattern in your image editor and make a new text layer on top of it, using one of the snowflake patterns as a texture for the text if you like.
The background image doesn't have to be used (edit snow.css) for a more plain/open top area, and the logo image can be changed accordingly.
This theme has CSS specified for a PHP Layers menu. The line of code to activate the menu is at around line 11 of the tiki.tpl file, but is commented out. To use the menu, change the " {* " and " *} " tags in that line to " { " and " } " (delete the asterisks) and, if necessary, change 43 to whatever menu id number you want to use.
The Snow theme has a slightly modified tiki-show_page.tpl file — to place a full-width graphic background behind the page title, a new div, id="pagetitle-container", was added around the code that calls the page title.
Also, tiki-read_article was modified to add a missing div class="article" tag.
In TikiWiki 2.0 and newer, the Site Identity feature is used to specify page-top site information.
Check out Sample Page to see how things look in this theme.
History
| Information | Version | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 05 of Sep, 2014 09:50 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Text trimmed and sample pages added. | 14 | |||||
| Thu 02 of Sep, 2010 02:07 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee relative urls. | 13 | |||||
| Sun 15 of Aug, 2010 13:04 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Tiki 4 download link added. | 12 | |||||
| Thu 24 of Sep, 2009 16:16 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Some Tiki 3 info added. | 11 | |||||
| Fri 02 of Jan, 2009 16:04 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Info updated. | 10 | |||||
| Wed 23 of Aug, 2006 11:57 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Note/link added about PHP Layers behavior. | 9 | |||||
| Tue 04 of Apr, 2006 06:58 UTC System Administrator Minor text edits. | 8 | |||||
| Wed 29 of Mar, 2006 08:11 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee More info added. | 7 | |||||
| Wed 29 of Mar, 2006 08:01 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Corrected file name. | 6 | |||||
| Wed 29 of Mar, 2006 07:58 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Info updated. | 5 | |||||
| Wed 25 of Jan, 2006 03:11 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Edits. | 4 | |||||
| Wed 25 of Jan, 2006 03:08 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Content added. | 3 | |||||
| Tue 17 of Jan, 2006 07:37 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Code sample line width shortened for now. | 2 | |||||
| Tue 17 of Jan, 2006 07:35 UTC Gary Cunningham-Lee Page created. | 1 | |||||