This sounds like a NO brainer but today I found out that someone had created an account and changed one of my skin pages.  They erased all the JavaScript I was using to allow users to change the background image.

I found out I hadn’t changed the configuration key for security/new-account-role. 

This could have been a BIG problem.  Hopefully my readers won’t have this issue.  To avoid this make sure to go to your Control Panel.  Click on the System Settings tab.

Once there Click on the Configuration sub menu and scroll down to the configuration key you see in the above picture.  (the one by the red arrow)  Change that to Viewer or whatever you want to change it to.

You can also keep people from registering by changing the security/allow-anon-account-creation to false.  You can also see this configuration key in the picture above.

Well I hope this helps.  It is something small, but could really get you in a bind REAL quick.  I think the default is set to Contributor, so PLEASE check this out right away.

~MikePixel (Michael Silva)

This weekend I am on cloud 9.  On Friday I was asked if I wanted to do a "Guest Blog" at mindtouch.com.  I was very honored and happy to do it.  I spent some time to formulate my opinions and late Friday my blog post was live.

Basically I went into the reasons I like Deki Wiki's skinning model.  Oh well, I don't have much to say here except for I am happy. 

~MikePixel (Michael Silva)

The Pixel-Season Deki Wiki skins are now available for download and to view at deki.cornerpixel.net.  These skins are available for the popular Deki Wiki web application made by MindTouch. 

MindTouch has an awesome product in their Deki Wiki.  I have enjoyed using it and am very happy to be able to provide the community with some extra skin options. 

Once at CornerPixel’s Deki Wiki site, you can view the Pixel-Season skins which come in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.  You can view alternate backgrounds and templates there too.

Have fun with the skins, used them for free, and if you like them, or even hate them, please email me at admin@cornerpixel.net or comment to this blog post.

Thanks,
MikePixel  (Michael Silva)

I have been working here and there on some new Deki Wiki skins and they can be seen in action at deki.cornerpixel.net.  It took a little troubleshooting, but I figured out how to allow the user to view all my skins on one Deki Wiki site and allow the user to click through backgrounds. 

Viewing different skins on separate pages.

The first thing I did was to create an administrator page that included a link to the CSS sheet for the skin I wanted to display.  I created a new page under the administrators account with the following markup.

<h1>PixelFall</h1>
<link href="/skins/fiesta/Pixel-Plus/pixel-fall/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

When I hit save and came back my source looked like this.

<h1>PixelFall</h1>
<p>&nbsp;</p><p> <link href="/skins/fiesta/Pixel-Plus/pixel-fall/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></p>

This will cause a blank paragraph in the custom area I put this in, but I will show you how to take care of that in a minute.

Then I went to the page I wanted to use the different skin on.  I edited the page and place this extension on the page.

{{ wiki.template("User:Administrator/PixelFall", nil, "customarea1") }}

What this did was placed the administrator page I created earlier into Custom Area 1.  It isn’t valid to put link tags in the body of your html, but I used this just for the purpose of displaying my skins to users without having to create 4 different Deki Wiki sites.

Lastly there is the issue of the blank paragraph tags.  In order to get rid of those I just added this CSS to the stylesheet I linked to.

.custom1 p { display: none; }

That was how I managed to put multiple skins on my MindTouch Deki wiki website.  There might be a better way, and I am always up for criticism, but this is how I did it.

~MikePixel (Michael Silva)