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Newton Skins Tips And Tricks

Meta Data Omission prior to 11/1/2007

Meta data tags were missing in the NewtonLayout prior to November 1, 2007. If you applied or re-applied a Newton layout after that date, your site will have the meta tags in place.

To fix this simply re-apply the layout. If you have customized the layout and don't wish to reapply, you can copy the meta data script code below and paste it in after the <head> tag near the top of the document.

    <meta editme="parse content" name="description" content="{site.description}" />
    <meta editme="parse content" name="keywords" content="{site.keywords}" />

Original Newton Skins Tips And Tricks

First thing, I took some timings of page load speeds before switching to the Newton Blue skin, to see if the switch to using CSS rather than tables would give the expected speed increase - which it did - doubling the page load speed of most of my site's pages.

Once the switch had been made, I copied the CSS "NewtonCSS" to my own copy "NewtonCSSMod" which I then edited as needed. 

These edits were as follows:-

  • changed the default blue #1798E9 back to the original blue #5b8bb8 which I much prefer for my site
  • changed the default fonts back to Trebuchet MS, Helvetic, sans-serif
  • added to the #column2 settings, as these are for the main content -  added in h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 so I could maintain my own settings for these - font-size being the main concern- and also added in these 
  • changed the setting of the site title to my preferred settings - amended section #logo h1 to have font-size 320% (larger title), text-transform: normal (not all caps), background-color: 5b8bb8 (back to the old blue)

After some more testing, I then made this "NewtonCSSMod" my default.

In addition to the above, there's also the easier changes to make:-

  • NewtonSectionMenu page - amend your tabbed menu here
  • Change the sub-title text via "Site Settings" page

Then, finally, I copied and amended the Layout, from NewtonLayout to NewtonLayoutMod, so that I could move the Menu Tools and Page Tools below the Menu content, which I prefer. Once these changes were done and tested, I then made this "NewtonLayoutMod" my default.

Overall, I really like the new Newton layouts (after some tweaking) - especially the fact they're CSS based and really speed up page load times.  Table layout is old hat, CSS  is new hat!

 Example Site: www.ukfilmtourism.com