Re: [Envolution-devel] little resume from italian discussion

[Sjahrazad A. <sja...@ba...>]

On Wed, 28 May 2003 11:03:49 -0400, TiMax wrote
> [...]
> I think also we need to promote explain promote explain and explain 
> promote eNvolution to let know people and graphic men power of 
> envolution and what they can make  with eNvolution, we need to have 
> themes themes .. [...]

Hi All,

I want to share ideas for the next installation release

1. We create a simple theme name Default as a default theme. It should be 
more functional rather than stylist theme, less of images except eNvo logo, 
less of scripts, clean, white background, not grey :) and only with text 
links on the left column such as Home, Admin, Help etc. Doing this way we 
can avoid any errors found for the first time installation which some times 
came from the themes nested tables, scripts, lost of tags etc. We also don't 
need to activate listed of modules links, reminder blocks, such as pn style. 
Then if they click the admin, they should see a consistent navigation 
structure.

2. The default theme is not intend to show-off rendering capabilities, but 
as the first tool for the web master to configure his site. Arrange the 
settings, activate the modules, setting users /groups, permission system 
etc. So if he found errors or bugs using the default theme, we know that the 
errors is not occur from the theme. We also suggest the users not to delete 
the Default theme. 

3. We create procedures for webmaster to configure his site for the first 
time installation. Such as go first to the setting, modules, blocks etc. We 
define two types of modules, main modules and addons modules. So we can 
concentrate to clean up the main modules completely, including consistent in 
user navigations, help page, multi lang etc. For i.e we concentrate in 
Subjects and Arena Forum modules, make it more consistent.

4. To showoff the eNvo capabilites, we create layout possibilities snapshot 
as much as possible. Corporate style, weblog style, designers style, fancy, 
etc. Some snapshot images are available in the encompass page as standard 
themes, which should be tested first, free of errors. So if they install 
another theme which is not the standard theme and found errors, they will 
know its about the theme not eNvo.

5. To make the designers enthusiast supporting eNvo themes, we can announce 
in our theme channel for i.e the 'eNvo Theme for this month'. Also what 
TiMax suggestion about the theme competition with rewards is also a great 
idea. I think we can choose the right timing to announce this, maybe after 
the next release.

sjah