All About Oikos

One of the major requests for improvement for the next version of Oikos, was for there to be more ways to personalize the Oikos experience. People felt very restricted by the limited options, and we agreed that something should be done to help people make Oikos their own.

Our first idea for making Oikos more customizable was to make an easy-to-build home page. We got rid of the old rigid widget system and made widgets that are extremely flexible. There are widgets for putting photos, videos, audio, and text on the home page. What’s cool is that these new widgets can be moved anywhere on the page, they can be resized, and they can overlap each other.

The image above is an example of a simple Home page made with the new widgets. The background is a default image that comes with Oikos V2. The flower/gear picture, the Oikos logo and the boxes around the text are all instances of the Photo widget. All the writing you see is contained in Text widgets. You can use any color for your text and choose from several font types. Text widgets support simple HTML, so it’s possible to make clickable links to other web pages.