I have been using Pukiwiki as the engine for my private wiki for quite a while now and I must say that I am more with happy with the choice I made.

It can easily be synced between my laptop and my webspace (via ftp) because it is file based. The markup language is easy and fast to type. With the page templates I have predefined pages for the different content I store. And it offers an easy mechanism to change the look and feel of it and to enhance its functionality.

I released the first version of my skin called “breeze” in Feburary. Since then I more than tripled the pages and I changed minor things that came to my attention which I tried to fix. And this is the reason for this post - to share the new release.

Here are the advantages my skin provides:

-clean look and feel

-only graphical options

-search field on the sidebar

-hit and visitor count on the side bar

-valid xhtml (except for duplicate ids in the headers created by PukiWiki)

-configuarable css

-icons for external links

-nicer table of contents

-layout for easy printing and saving

And here are the chages I made for the current release:

- bigger edit textarea

- hard breaks for the main window, no more scrollbars

- spaces in the “recent changes” tab to deferenciate entries

- made “refering pages” a button in the toolbar

- minor changes in the CSS

- question mark next to the search field is now clickable

If this sounds appealing to you please:

→ Download breeze v0.2

Or check out the inital version:

→ Download breeze v0.1

I made already wrote two posts about PukiWiki. One talks about the inital release of the skin and one is about installing PukiWiki. But both are written in German.

And if you wonder why I write this post in English - it’s because I noticed that the offical PukiWiki page linked to here and that all the people coming to my blog have Japanese set up as their browser language. So I figured that English might be more helpful to you guys than my Germany gibberish.

So enjoy and please let me know what you think. Thanks…

…Oh, if someone has a nicer printing symbol than the one I use, feel free to email it to me. That would be great.