How LigaType uses Skins

The main level of your site, the top level, has skins folder called _skins. Each skin resides as a folder within the _skins folder. Inside each skin is an HTML file called layout.htm - this file describes how pages at the top level of your site appear. 

You can define a default skin for your website. Additionally, each folder of your site can specify its own skin, which LigaType will use for that folder and all sub-folders within it.

Lastly, you can specify the skin to use on a per-page basis as well.

Skin Design

Skin design is simple. The files that a skin needs to function, namely its layout and typography stylesheets along with supporting graphics, appear in a folder called _skinname_files/  where skinname is the name of the skin.  This makes it really easy to design a skin, because you can open the skin in an HTML editor or in a browser, and the editor or browser will know how to find all of the files your skin needs to show you what it looks like completely outside of LigaType.  So to develop a new skin, all you have to do is develop a simple webpage with the graphics and styles in this folder, upload it, and you're done.