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---+!! [[%TOPIC%][The Natural Skin]]

!NatSkin improves your Foswiki experience by bringing together some of the most useful
features from different plugins in a consistent way. !NatSkin comes with a modern
web design that improves readability of your wiki content as well as easing the way
you interact with it as a wiki author and consumer.

!NatSkin also serves as a foundation for additional web designs. So you won't need to
reinvent the wheel on every project over and over again.

!NatSkin allows you to choose between several kinds of page layouts. All of the
predefined themes come with support for a 1, 2 and 3 columns designs in both a
fluid and a fixed page layout. 

!NatSkin provides a much improved usability when navigating among webs as well as
when interacting with wiki content.

---++ Screenshots

---++ Theme switcher

You can change design and layout aspects of every page as you like with just a few clicks.

Configure the skin by changing:

   * the theme installed on your system,
   * the style part of a theme,
   * the variation added to the theme's style,
   * the sidebar location,
   * the page layout being either a fixed-width, or a fluid design or
   * the navigation elements as displayed at the top of the page.

The underlying templates that generate the pages are arranged in a flexible and
manageable way to facilitate easy "skin mix-in", that is, overriding specific parts of
the templates by using the !NatSkin as a parent skin to create template modifications.

---++ <nop>WebComponents

| *Name* | *Description* | *Default* |
| <nop>Menu | navigation tabs above the topic area | [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteMenu]] |
| <nop>SideBar | a configurable navigation bar | [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteSideBar]] |
| <nop>RightBar | when using two sidebars, this component holds the right sidebar, while the <nop>SideBar component is displayed on the left. | [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteRightBar]] |
| <nop>Links | this is a sub-component of the <nop>SideBar component to plug in navigation links within | [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteLinks]], [[%USERSWEB%.WebLinks]], [[%SYSTEMWEB%.WebLinks]] |
| <nop>BottmBar | customize the content at the bottom area of a page | [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteBottomBar]] |
| <nop>HtmlHead | additional stuff to be put into the html head, like javascript and/or css | [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteHtmlHead]] |
| <nop>HtmlBottom | similar to <nop>WebHtmlHead but putting additional stuff just before the closing &lt;/body> tag of a page; this is useful when adding third party javascript code to a website, like tracking code | |
| <nop>TopicActions | configure the actions used to manipulate topics | [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteTopicActions]] |

---++ Documentation
   * NatSkinTemplates
   * NatSkinCss
   * NatSkinConfiguration
   * NatSkinFAQ
   * NatSkinPlugin
   * NatSkinGrid
---++ Installation Instructions
You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server.

Open configure, and open the "Extensions" section. Use "Find More Extensions" to get a list of available extensions. Select "Install".

If you have any problems, or if the extension isn't available in =configure=, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See http://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.


   * Test if installed: [[%SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?skin=nat][click here]]

---++ Dependencies
<table class="foswikiTable" border="1"><tr><th>Name</th><th>Version</th><th>Description</th></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Contrib::FamFamFamContrib</td><td align="left">&gt;=2075</td><td align="left">Required.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::AutoTemplatePlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=2.01</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::BreadCrumbsPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=4318</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::DBCachePlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=1</td><td align="left">Optional</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::MimeIconPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=1</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::FilterPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=3491</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::FlexWebListPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=3493</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::ImagePlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=6307</td><td align="left">Optional</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=3740</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::NatEditPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=1993</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::NatSkinPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=3.99_002</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::RenderPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=3644</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::SetVariablePlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=2.21</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::TopicInteractionPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=1340</td><td align="left">Required</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::WebLinkPlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=1</td><td align="left">Optional</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Foswiki::Plugins::ZonePlugin</td><td align="left">&gt;=3.1</td><td align="left">Required. required for Foswiki < 1.1</td></tr></table>

---++ Skin Info
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   * Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Modern web design for Foswiki
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|  Skin Author: | Michael Daum |
|  Copyright &copy;: | 2003-2013, Michael Daum http://michaeldaumconsulting.com |
|  License: | GPL ([[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html][GNU General Public License]]) |
|  Release: | 3.99_010 |
|  Version: | 3.99_010 |
|  Description: | Userfriendly Foswiki skin providing a flexible theming engine for professional webdesigns |
|  Base Name: | nat |
|  Screenshot: | <div style="overflow:hidden;height:200px"><a href="%PUBURLPATH%/%WEB%/NatSkin/BlueNoteStyle.jpeg"><img src="%PUBURLPATH%/%WEB%/NatSkin/BlueNoteStyle.jpeg" title="JazzyNoteTheme"/></a></div> |
|  Change&nbsp;History: | <!-- specify latest version first -->&nbsp; |
|  14 Mar 2013: | first beta of new release |
|  25 Jun 2003: | Initial version |
|  Home: | Foswiki:Extensions/NatSkin |
|  Support: | Foswiki:Support/NatSkin |

PackageForm edit

ExtensionClassification	Interface and Visualisation
ExtensionType	SkinPackage
Compatibility
ImageUrl
DemoUrl	http://michaeldaumconsulting.com
SupportUrl	NatSkin
DevelopedInSVN	Yes
ModificationPolicy	CoordinateWithAuthor

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Topic revision: r50 - 24 May 2013, MichaelDaum

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