From: Ken N. <ke...@co...> - 2005-01-04 03:10:30
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I would like to jump on the bandwagon. I believe Mike Noyes brought this up a few months ago and there was some discussion about CSS methodology / standards, but no real consensus. How many times has a module's "theme" clashed with that of the main theme? Where colors were hard-coded in the module instead of defaulting to the theme? Just recently I perused the Xaraya site to compare and contrast their efforts with that of phpWebSite. I found two items which I believe "should" be incorporated into phpWebSite. The first is CSS methodology. Everyone writes code differently... accomplishing the same results. Xaraya set up mandatory default CSS classes: http://www.xaraya.com/documentation/rfcs/rfc0010.html#rfc.section.2 Establishing standards enables modules to work within the theme instead of independent of the theme. Second, here is a "how-to" Xaraya doc for module / theme interdependence. http://xaraya.org/index.php/documentation/229 I would also like to add theme "columnization" to the list on Michael's page. How many default columns "should" there be? Can phpWebSite's Layout module seamlessly handle three / two / one column themes? What methodology can be used for those columns? (left - middle/center - right) or (left - main - right) or some other variation? Again, count me in on CSS standardization and I am willing to do any grunt work necessary. Ken On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:57, Michael H=C3=B8j Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I have written an article about defining and implementing design standa= rds > in phpWebSite. I want to address some of the inconsistency in the inter= face, > focusing on usability rather than the actual html code. >=20 > I believe that a design standard, with examples and guidelines, will be= nefit > on the quality of the html code. > The article is not meant to be the design standard, merely to give some > inspiration, and most important of all, to give some input for a debate= on > the subject. >=20 > If you have the time and interests, please look at the article. Feel fr= ee to > comment the article directly on the website. >=20 > Link to the article: > http://www.michaelshjemmeside.dk/index.php?module=3Dpagemaster&PAGE_use= r_op=3Dvi > ew_page&PAGE_id=3D7 >=20 > Please be patient while loading the article. My ISP is V-E-R-Y slow fro= m > time to time. It could take up to several minutes before the page is lo= aded. >=20 > Another warning - besides the article, the website is in Danish. Please= do > not get lost :-) >=20 > - Michael Rasmussen (TechElephant) >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Phpwebsite-developers mailing list > Php...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpwebsite-developers --=20 Ken Nordquist "Community Marketing for the Next Generation" Call Us Toll Free: 866-621-4043 http://communitygems.com |