Appearance consists of three tabs: Site Template, CSS, and Design Templates. Using these three elements, (virtually) any site design can be broken down into its component parts and adapted for use in Obiki.
The Site Template provides the basic structure for the individual pages in the Obiki site. It consists of standard html and Mason code, and designates the editable regions where display components may be inserted.
Unless otherwise specified, all pages in the Obiki site will use this template.
The Site Template
A default CSS document is provided to manage visual elements of the design.
The CSS document
Design Templates are 'sub-templates' that may be used to supplement the primary template. For instance, you may have a section of the site that has a part of each page in common; whether it be a table, a block of html, or something more complicated. A design template can be created to provide that part of the page without the need to insert it manually into each document. In addition, design templates can serve as alternate templates if you specify for them to stand alone.
Each design template must be given a name. On the [settings](/docs/settings_tab.html} tab of each document, this name will appear in a dropdown list labeled design.
The Placeholder dropdown list provides a list of locations (editable regions) in the site template where the design template may be inserted.
By clicking the Standalone checkbox, the design template will be used by itself to provide page structure, and will not be inserted in the site template.
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