Skin concepts

- [Voiceover] In this video, you'll learn what a skin is…and learn about two different types of skins that…Flare can create.…The skin is effectively a frame around an online output.…So, here for example is…typical online output that we've been generating…and what we have at the top is this narrow toolbar pane.…Over on the left is the navigation tabs pane,…where the table of contents would appear,…the glossary would appear,…and then over here is where the topic appears.…

So the topic itself, this,…is controlled by the style sheet, the CSS,…and the tables CSS.…We can also have a breadcrumb trail above the topic.…The You Are Here, maybe a header above the topic.…Maybe a footer below the topic.…The breadcrumb trail, the header,…and footer are controlled by the master page.…Everything else, mainly this toolbar pane…and this navigation pane are controlled by the skin.…

Flare can create two different types of skins.…They're called the tripane and top navigation or Top Nav.…So what you see here is an example of the tripane.…