MuNuviana Skin

Well, I finally have my skinning technology worked out and am ready to start working on the skinning of the MuNuviana group site.

There's still on small little glitch that I'm working on, though. It seems that the new skins inherit some of the properties from the previous skin. These properties are mostly the borders, padding, and margins. If they are not explicitly declared in the new skin, they are not changed and show up in the current skin. I've found a work-around by just zeroing them out at the top of the div class code that is affected.

Now, the only other thing that needs to be corrected is a small strip of background color that gets left behind. If you refresh the screen or scroll down the page, the strip goes away. I'm still looking at that and working on a fix. If anyone has experienced the same thing, let me know how you overcame it.

When you select a particular skin, the javascript will set a cookie. When you return to this site, it will remember your skin preference and use that setting to display the content. I have it up at the MadLab if you want to check it out and see how it works.

If anyone wants me to use their stylesheet to skin this site, please e-mail it to me in .doc file format at MadfishWillie@hotmail.com and I'll include it in the list. Personally, I think it would be neat if everyone sent a skin, but that's your decision.

Pixy, in order to do this, I'll need access to the index file and to be able to upload the javascript and the skin stylesheets to a directory I'll call /styles off the current path. I have to make two changes in the head section: 1) declare the path to the skin's stylesheet and 2) install the script filepointer. Then, I need to insert a sidebar section with the code and links for selecting the desired skin. Also, if I get a lot of skins, maybe I should put them in a dropdown box instead of a list. Give me some feedback on how you want to implement the selection process.