Tuesday, March 31, 2009  

The final release of the new Yorktown skins is now available to all EditMe sites. Yorktown is now the default skin for new EditMe sites, though the Acton skins are still available. Yorktown provides several important upgrades and features:

• Tool links are now all visible rather than nested in dropdown menus.
• Tool links are grouped by function and displayed in contextual locations rather than all at the top of the screen. For example, Edit Menu is in the Menu area, while Edit Page is in the Page area.
• A powerful (though still somewhat experimental) Styles Editor has been introduced to provide significant customization capability without getting into CSS code. See Style Editor for details.
• Style sheets are based on a considerably more robust foundation (for the geeks, it's YAML) to avoid many of the formatting inconsistencies experienced in the Acton and Newton skins.
• A much requested option to hide the tools menus for anonymous users has been added.
• An alternate one-column layout is included to hide the left column Menu area for the whole site or as applied to individual pages.
• The Skin Settings page has been made a standard part of Site Settings (see the Look & Feel menu) so that a link in the front-end navigation is no longer needed.
• Makes use of CSS3 rounded corners for browsers that support it (Firefox, Chrome, Safari).

The current Yorktown designs are mirrored after the Acton designs to provide an easy upgrade path for sites using those designs. Planned replacements for the other Skin families as well as completely new design options based on the Yorktown base are planned for future releases.

See the support wiki for additional details and upgrade notes.