# Pattern skin **PatternSkin provides a CSS based default look and feel for TWiki - flexible and W3C-compliant.** Its layout and color scheme are designed to provide a nice, clean and productive _editing environment_. For use in corporate or perhaps in personal websites it should be fairly easy to tune the looks or even create a PatternSkin-based new skin.
**%TOPIC%.zip**
in your twiki installation directory
- Test if installed: [[http://www.dementia.org/twiki/view/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?skin=pattern|%WEB%/%TOPIC%?skin=pattern]]
- For skin activation see [[TWikiSkins]]
### Troubleshooting
If you have set the SKIN variable setting to `pattern` and you still don't see the layout as on the [screenshot](http://www.dementia.org/twiki//view/patternskin_screenshot_full.png), a few settings in may have been disabled.
Check these variables here:
- TWIKILAYOUTURL = %TWIKILAYOUTURL%
- TWIKISTYLEURL = %TWIKISTYLEURL%
- TWIKICOLORSURL = %TWIKICOLORSURL%
- SKIN = %SKIN%
If TWIKILAYOUTURL or TWIKISTYLEURL don't give a value or point to non-existing files, check in [[TWikiPreferences]] that the following variables do exist and that they are set to on:
* %TWIKIWEB%.PatternSkin settings:
* Set TWIKILAYOUTURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/layout.css
* Set TWIKISTYLEURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/style.css
* Set TWIKICOLORSURL = %PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/colors.css
**NOTE:** customization of these values should be done in [[Main.TWikiPreferences|Main/TWikiPreferences]]
If this still does not work, contact the administrator who installs skins.
For further troubleshooting and feedback, go to TWiki:Plugins/PatternSkinDev. Report bugs in the [[Support web|TWiki:Support/WebHome]].
## Skin Info
Description: | TWiki's default skin; CSS based, flexible and W3C-compliant |
Screenshot: | |
Preview: | [[%WEB%/%TOPIC%?skin=pattern]] |
Base Name: | pattern |
Skin Author: | TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens |
Skin Version: | 15 Jan 2006 (v2.0.6) |
History: | |
15 Jan 2006: | v.2.0.6 - TWiki 4.1.0 (Edinburgh) RELEASE VERSION |
26 Sep 2006: | v.2.0.5 - Fixed form background colors |
22 Jul 2006: | v.2.0.4 - Refactored info in colors.css; fixed textarea color |
26 Jun 2006: | v.2.0.3 - TWiki 4.0.3 (Dakar) RELEASE VERSION |
31 Jan 2006: | v.2.0.0 - TWiki 4.0.0 (Dakar) RELEASE VERSION |
28 Aug 2004: | v.1.0.9 - TWiki 3.0 (Cairo) RELEASE VERSION |
08 Aug 2004: | Initial version (v1.0.0) |
Dependencies: | TWiki:Plugins/TwistyContrib (automatically supported by Dakar) |
Skin Home: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/%TOPIC% |
Feedback: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/%TOPIC%Dev |
Download: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/%TOPIC% |