Tiki Design

Posted by Maxfield Stewart on Wed 16 of Jan, 2008 07:07 GMT-0000 posts: 17

I've just begun to go over your stuff at Zuka. I'm tasked with standing up a internal Intranet in, well, you know, yesterday. Small game development company. I chose TikiWiki for it's large support of base features out of the box. Sure, it wasn't the "prettiest" out of the box, but "pretty" can be fixed far faster than feature set.

Theme wise I'm almost set, Tikipedia for all Wiki sections (most of the intranet will be used as collaborative documentation), Corporate blog (Kubrick, 1.9 theme works fine for this... for now), and primary Intranet homepage. That page, sadly is the one I'm struggling with. I have an effective information layout with tikineat.css but frankly, I want more pizazz.

Andreas09 and Mittvoch I really like, both are on my "too fiddle with" list. I noticed Mozilla's support site uses Tikiwiki and that layout has a lot of potential as simple intranet header pages (too bad they didn't release it). So I'm basically showing off the work this Friday (not that itwas much work, more education, things worked right out of the gate minus the issues I've posted here).

And a proposal to do some UI/Skinning. The hard part for them won't be the idea that it needs work, it's that their IT Director (me) can do it if they give him the time 😊

We'll have no issues contributing the results back to the OpenSource community (in fact we'd be happy to). I've never personally "given back" so I'll ask for guidance here when I have some themeish work I'll stand behind a bit more then my untested hackjobs at the moment!

We also have big plans for the workflow engine in TikiWiki but that's not a discussion for t his board (unless I theme it all too... ugh, gonna be a long couple quarters!).