RWSkinz

Helping me understand the RWSkinz Theme

My attempt to understand RWSkinz master style settings

Freeform Comments

  • SKINS
    • A very clever idea, to have different skins for a theme, and this website will demo it.
    • There is an RWSkinz video by Will Woodgate that goes into application of skins,
    • A Bootswatch website contains instruction on skinning pages and a number of skins to use.
    • The real problem is coming to grips with all the customization options and creating a coherent design
  • RWSKINZ DEMO WEB SITE
    • Incorporated into this website is the official RWSkinz Demo Website by Will Woodgate on how to individualize pages, and it also shows off his Bootiful and Specialty stacks. The link is also included in the navigation. Included are my favorites, a demo of Zonal and Intrinsic stacks.
  • HERO AKA JUMBOTRON, BANNER CUSTOMIZATION
    • A new banner can be created by dragging an image into the Banner image well of the General Settings. The recommended size is 2000x1000, although the one I used is 2000x1333
    • Padding is set by default to 8 REMS to make the banner a reasonable height but can be reduced or enlarged
    • Use Fixed Background Image setting, if desired. Although it stretches the image
    • Use Full Height Jumbotron to fill the browser window with the image with an arrow activating the next page
    • Add the Site name, description and Logo to overlay the banner if desired
  • EXTRACONTENT CONTAINERS AND MANY FONT CHOICES
    • The RWSkinz theme has one hundred Extra Content containers.
    • Almost 100 font choices for various elements are available. I used a Georgia font for everything.
  • FOOTER CUSTOMIZATION
    • Can have no footer, minimized or block. Block has limited styling
  • SIDEBAR CUSTOMIZATION
    • Add the Doobox Teleporter Stack a partial to have customized content in Sidebar Title and Content areas. I used IDs of x x 1 and x x 2 (name whatever you want) to positionr stack content
  • MISC ITEMS
    • Save Theme Style Settings to easily retrieve configurations
    • Create any of about 50 body background designs with color fill
    • Create self-generated skin
  • OTHER
    • Navigation bar, Freestyle Banner, Middle Nav Bar, BreadcOptions, (Top, Jumbo, Middle, Bottom)
    • Don't know what it is.... Sidebar Parent Page Nav list?
    • Top, Lower breadcrumbs bar

Master style categories, with comments

  • THEME STYLES
  • BODY BACKGROUND
  • SELF GENERATED SKIN
  • PAGE COMPONENTS
    • Top Nav Bar
    • Jumbotron
    • Freestyle Banner
    • Middle Nav bar
    • Top Breadcrumb Bar
    • Minimal FOOTER
    • Block FOOTER
    • Lover Nav bar
  • CONSTRAINT WIDTH
  • CONSTRAINT OVERRIDES
  • FONT SETTINGS
  • JUMBOTRON OPTIONS
  • SIDEBAR Settings
  • MISCELLANEOUS
  • VARIOUS NAV BAR SETTINGS

Will Woodgate