I’m not so mad on the available skins however – in particular, the Aqua theme takes on the look and feel of the first few releases of Mac OS X when those white and grey background stripes were not-so-subtle and not-so-attractive. No, I wanted a skin that was a little more up-to-date for a project I’ve been working on, so after a few hours in the lab here is the Minium skin (also based on a theme name I’m using for said project).

Yep, it’s heavily inspired by Mac OS X, and in particular, Apple’s “pro” look and feel, which probably stuck in my head when I checked out Numbers the day it was released Hopefully this will be just the ticket for polishing up your web application too!

Download Minium for jscalendar.

To use the skin with jscalendar, place the minium folder contained in the zip file inside the skins folder in your jscalendar install, and add a link tag to the theme.css file inside.

<input id="first-name" name="first-name" type="text" classic="text" />

Using this convention also means I can place the id and the name adjacent to each other – also handy. While this may not be the preferred convention for everyone, I find it’s just one more thing that helps me read that code in 6 months time – if I stick to it, it’s pretty quick for my eye to scan to that all-important information.