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InstantEnhancements 5 - 2005-03-27 - Main.TWikiContributor
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| Instant TWiki Site Enhancements
These quick enhancements are aimed at improving and customising your TWiki. New TWiki site administrators are especially encouraged to review this document for ideas before deploying a new TWikiSite. The metaphor of building a house is useful. The listed enhancements are some of the details possible when moving into a new office or home. These small changes can make a big differences for user satisfaction at your site. All modifications can be done through your Web browser, and they don't take more then in a couple of minutes. No system administration expertise is required. Some of these enhancements are also mentioned in the reference manual and other topics. | |
Icons can do a lot to enhance scannability of topics. For instance, on HELP pages, most people tend to jump around looking for answers rather than reading through - icons help point out the most important bits. | |
< < | TWikiDocGraphics has a whole collection of ready icon images. You can use these images in any topic by referring to their name. For example, TWikiDocGraphics has an image attachment called days.gif . To show this image in a topic, write %ICON{"days"}% to get . | > > | TWikiDocGraphics has a whole collection of ready icon images. You can use these images in any topic by referring to their name. For example, TWikiDocGraphics has an image attachment called days.gif . To show this image in a topic, write %ICON{"days"}% to get . | |
Creating image variables | |
- Set DOWN =
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< < | Most images in TWikiDocGraphics are 16 x 16 pixels. | > > | Most images in TWikiDocGraphics are 16 x 16 pixels. | | | |
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- Related: There are other approaches for creating more extensive TWiki icon libraries. This is a simply and quick way to get started. See TWikiDocGraphics for more info.
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- Related: There are other approaches for creating more extensive TWiki icon libraries. This is a simply and quick way to get started. See TWikiDocGraphics for more info.
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Use TOC variable to create table of content | |
Other cusomtisations are possible using WEBLOGOIMG , WEBLOGOURL , and WEBLOGOALT (they mirror the WIKILOGO* TWiki variables, but are applied to each web, rather than to the %WIKITOOLNAME%-based references) | |
< < | If you'd like to have the same customised logo for all the webs, make these changes in TWikiPreferences instead of each web's WebPreferences, e.g.,
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Set WEBLOGOIMG = %PUBURLPATH%/TWiki/WebPreferences/mylogo.gif
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Set WEBLOGOIMG = %PUBURLPATH%/Main/WebPreferences/mylogo.gif
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Customize Topic Classification Forms |
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