New Themes

Posted by Maxfield Stewart on Sat 12 of Jan, 2008 21:01 GMT-0000 posts: 17

Yup. I'm deploying Tiki Wiki for my business intranet for a small game development company. I'm pretty early in the deploy, learning how to make the changes I know this wild and crazy group will ask for. Which always lean towards the visual side, not the functional.

Futzing with stuff like this helps me get a feel for where I have to make changes. I know the default templates won't cut it with this group. So for certain folks I'm using the Tikipedia template (which works pretty well with 1.10 I must say) and for a lot of others I'm trying to center on something a little less "techie" looking. Believe it or not I have some users who are terrified of anything that actually "looks" like a wiki.

Twist has a nice tight layout, one of the best in the set. I'm expirimenting with it and Fluid Index right, Kubrik for blogs, and Tikipedia for dev team areas. It's a real challenge ramping up.

I'm taking notes on things that I'll have to work on, and making adjustments to Twist to work with 1.10 is on the list. If i get some effort into it, I'll submit the changes. For now, most of the adjustments have been to FCKEditor and css files to make things look/behave a little cleaner for my audience.

As for why 1.10 over a stable 1.9? That's easy, 1.10 has significantly better FCKEditor integration than 1.9 and WYSIWYG was a "make or break" deal for several teams who think Wiki Code is too hard.