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17 Sep 2005 - 11:15 in , tagged , , by Michael Daum
Getting close. There've been some further improvements to the NatSkin and NatSkinPlugin to emulate WordPress and MovableType even closer.
First, the standard TWiki engine will render a html title refering to the breadcrumbs within your side, something like " BlogEntry4 - Blog - Michael Daum Consulting". But actually we'd like to hide this as this is more an implementational detail of a TWikiApplication like this blog. You can control which title a html page has by setting a topic variable PAGETITLE or adding the TopicForm to a topic and write a Summary formfield, or in case of a BlogEntry, the headline will appear in the html title. This will increase significantly your appearance on google where each hit is shown using the html title. As "usual" this feature works on bejing, cairo and dakar. Little restriction: no formfields on a beijing. I'm very unlikely to implement a FORMFIELD backup for beijing as nobody (but me) is still using this ancient release.

Second, the NatSkin has a button bar showing the web list in the topbar. Right now this will only show up using the Kubrick style but will be ported to the other styles soon.

Third, there's rudimentary support to switch the searchbox from within the topbar into the navigation bar. That's how the searchbox is placed in the original Kubrick on BinaryBonsai. I tried that but, well, don't like it that much. So I disabled this feature on JojoWiki again. The current SVN r6393 will still give you this behaviour though.

Finally, the buttonbar and the searchbox will be switchable in the skin state as the border, the sidebar and the style are using the TWiki.NatSkinStyleBrowser. Soon to come.


2 Comments

1 Martin Cleaver replied 4 days, 10 hours later

Nice

This is a very nice-looking blog, quite un-twiki like!

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1.1 MichaelDaum , 4 days, 21 hours later: Thanks
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