Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Defining and implementing design standards in phpWebSite

[Ken N. <ke...@co...>]

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,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> If you have the time and interests, please look at the article. Feel fr=
ee to
> comment the article directly on the website.
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> Link to the article:
> http://www.michaelshjemmeside.dk/index.php?module=3Dpagemaster&PAGE_use=
r_op=3Dvi
> ew_page&PAGE_id=3D7
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> 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.
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> Another warning - besides the article, the website is in Danish. Please=
 do
> not get lost :-)
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> - Michael Rasmussen (TechElephant)
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