Tiki 3.0 version

• Now uses the default template files, so when upgrading, be sure to remove existing files in templates/styles/andreas09/ and then add the andreas09_tiki_3 files.
• Now uses "theme options" for the color variations. This is why the main Andreas09 theme is now "monochrome". Use the theme-switcher module (side column) to switch to the Andreas09 and select a color theme option.

Old information (mostly out of date now):

Tiki 2.0 version (formerly known as Tiki 1.10

Older copy below:

First in the "Famous Authors" Series

This theme is one of several by this designer that I expect to make Tiki versions of. His themes have been downloaded over 600,000 times, and adapted to a number of CMSs, blog backends, and so on.

Color choice

One of several color options can be chosen by simply uploading/copying the two page-background and link-hover image files from styles/andreas09/multicolors/ into the styles/andreas09/ directory.

Andreas09 site identity

The Site Identity feature for the Andreas09 theme is displayed within the colored header section of the page, not above it. This seems to be the smoothest integration with the theme's design.

Turning Site Identity on, for use with this theme, makes it possible to replace the site title and subtitle text lines with a logo in the colored area, and also enables a banner in that area. These can be specified on the Site Identity admin page. To consistently center these two items — which can be various heights — vertically in the header space, I went retro and put them in a table. To position the logo image, banner zone, etc, more precisely, or to add other elements, or avoid using a table for layout, use the Custom Code box in the Site Identity configuration page instead of activating the logo and banner items. Here you can use specific margin heights, etc., for your particular logo image, etc.

Because the theme's tiki.tpl already contains a search box and facility for a horizontal navbar, activating these on the Site Identity admin page won't have any effect as the code was removed from the template file. The breadcrumbs code is also not implemented.

Editing tiki-site_identity.tpl

If another way of handling Site Identity is preferred, the templates/andreas09/tiki-site_identity.tpl file can be edited. (This file is a much simplified version of the default tiki-site_identity.tpl.) Be aware, though, that the background image is attached to the page body, not to the header section, and if the height of the header (Site Identity) contents is greater than 52px, the contents that follow will be pushed down the page and will no longer properly overlay the background image (especially noticeable with the navbar).

To get the result shown in the default layout of Andreas09 — the two lines of text — but without having to edit templates/styles/andreas09, just activate Site Identity and its Custom Code, using as content something like

<h1>First Line of Text</h1>
<h2>second line of text</h2>
(top line has h1 tags, bottom one has h2 tags.)

Horizontal menu space on error page

The error page (such as for 404 page-not-found errors) also shows the header and horizontal menu sections (tiki.tpl and error.tpl are identical except for the center-middle section of the page). To have the horizontal menu links display on the error page, error.tpl will also have to be edited. But if the links are not needed there especially, by default the error page will just repeat the error message in that space, so no editing of the file is actually necessary. If the horizontal links, etc. are wanted on that page, edit error.tpl the same way tiki.tpl was edited (or copy and paste the tiki.tpl customization into the same section of error.tpl).

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