Traction ships with several skins (see Available Skins) including Basic, Modern, News, 2col, 3col, Earth and Simple. The Mexico skin is the current and recommended default. The Modern skin is built for power users. The News skin is a good entry level skin but it does not expose comments, labels, or date navigation as intuitively as the Earth or Basic skin. The Simple skin is served automatically to wireless device browsers and is ideal for small screens on these devices. The 2col and 3col skins are driven by style sheets and can optionally mimic the reverse chronological order and look and feel of a personal Weblog. Customers can use Skin Definition Language (SDL) to make their own skins, or create style sheets to apply their own look and feel requirements to the 2col and 3col skins.
The default skin for all users is specified in Server Setup - Defaults. Users can override the default skin in two ways.
To change your personal default: Click the My Account link and choose a skin in the Preferences tab.
To change your skin via a cookie setting in the current browser: Type the command /skin followed by the name of the skin.
Note: The methods specified above are also covered in Changing Skins
For example, to switch to the 3col skin, type:
/skin 3col
To switch back to your personal or server default, type:
/skin default
Note: If you experiment with changing skins using a Rapid Selector command and find youself using a skin that you don't like, you can quickly return to your own default skin by typing /skin default in the Search box and clicking Search.
It's also possible to make the change for one view only by adding &skin=mexico (or any other skin name) at the end of any URL generated by Traction, except for permalink URL's.
Or you can turn a /skin default (or any other Rapid Selector command) into a URL you can click to or bookmark using the following pattern:
Using your TeamPage server's URL followed by /rs/skin%20default. All blanks and special characters in the Rapid Selector expression you wish to execute this way must be "URL encoded" to obey http's syntax rules for URLS.