We've been tinkering with our LibGuides template in preparation for an eventual redesign of our site and guides, e.g.:
http://libguides.bc.edu/libraries/babst/staff Some of our guide authors weren't happy with the LibGuides side-navigation's single-column limitation, so we made our own template, moved {{guide_nav}} off to a left column, and wrote our own styles to make the default top-nav display as left-nav. We've found that a 50/50 or 75/25 split next to the left nav looks pretty good. Unfortunately we have authors who want *three* columns plus left-nav... In general the LibGuides templating has felt modern and easy to work with. Ben On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Brad Coffield <bcoffield.libr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm finally diving into our Libguides v2 migration and I'm wondering if > anyone would be willing to share their experience/choices regarding > templating. (Or even some code!) > > I'm thinking left-nav is the way to go. Has anyone split the main content > column into two smaller columns? Done that with a column-width-spanning box > atop the main content area? Any other neato templates ideas? > > We are in the process of building a "style guide" for all libguides authors > to use. And also some sort of peer-review process to help enforce the style > guide. I'm thinking we are going to want to restrict all authors to > left-nav templates but perhaps the ideal solution would be to require > left-nav of all but to have a variety of custom left-nav templates to > choose from. > > Any thoughts are much appreciated! > > Warm regards, > > Brad > > -- > Brad Coffield, MLIS > Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian > Saint Francis University > 814-472-3315 > bcoffi...@francis.edu >