Klaus wrote: >> From the how to I get the impression that I should have done my >> changes inside the /skin/TrondSkin/ folder. Am I missing something >> obvious? > > Perhaps. *;) > > First you have to make your changes in the /skin/TrondSkin/ subfolder, > then you have to go to the blog root's ZMI, choose the Skins tab and > press "Change skin" (or "Chenge skin" in earlier versions of COREblog). > Pressing "Change skin" button has the effect of updating all the skin > files, including teh style_css.
Thanks Klaus, it was proberbly obviuous, but not to me. I'had misunderstood and thought that once I changed to a custom skin, Coreblog would look inside the custom skin folder for the necsessary files instead of looking at the root level of the blog. It proberbly wouldn't harm to make this a bit clearer in the "how-to". As for Marks reply, this sounds really marvelous, and I can't wait to try it out. I've decided to put the customisation on hold until I can install your solution. If it is possible to try it out without having to wait until next week, that would be great. This week I have time for fiddling around with it, but the next coupple of weeks will be pretty busy. CMF dependencies are just fine with me, we've got CMF and plone installed at the BEK server. Best, Trond Mike wrote: > We have developed a different approch to customising the appearance of > blogs in CoreBlog. > > We wrote a new CoreBlog skin which completely converts the rendering > architecture of CoreBlog > > a - replaces all those dtml files which co-opt the request variable with a > few ZPT macros and files with clearly readable logic > b - creates much cleaner markup, without tables, and conforming to the > default markup generated by Movable Type (MT) > c - uses MT-compatible css stylesheets to control blog layout, look and > feel > > Once this new zpt_css_thin skin is installed, all further control of > layout, look and feel can be done with stylesheets. For those not > familiar with the power of modern, standards-based html markup + css, note > that the arrangement of elements on the page can be controlled purely with > css ( for example, see the 'clean' alternative styling in example blog ). > > ( by the way, it was a *lot* of work converting the coreblog rendering > architecture to a more rational zpt approach :O( > > We would have posted this a few weeks ago, but unfortunately we've been > under time pressure to further develop the blogs in a CMF/Plone > environment, and have not had time to clean out any CMF dependencies which > may have crept into the rendering skin. We'll post the zpt_css_thin skin > [ minus CMF leveraging ] in about 10 days, maybe sooner if there is demand. > > We're eager to know how much demand there is for further work that is > *not* CMF-dependent. Our current development plan is to completely > rewrite a blog-publishing solution much like coreblog, but with filesystem > storage, and leveraging CMF to improve maintainability and to allow rapid > addition of features. We've already made quite a lot of progress towards > this end ( for instance user control of blogroll and other links, a > blogThisPage bookmarklet...), but will try hard not to make the new > product CMF dependent if there is a lot of demand for a pure-zope > solution. In-house, we will be developing extra features which *do* make > use of the cmf/plone environment. > > If you want to see examples of the use of pure css for coreblog look and > feel, go to one of our test blogs and try out the alternative stylesheets > ( select-box in upper-left corner of page ) > > NB - these are test blogs; we are currently including a range of MT > stylesheets for test purposes without credit or adaptation... this will be > included in any 'real' release > > also, please be gentle with comments and trackbacks, since there are real > users testing these blogs in practice... > > example css-controlled blog: > > http://www.knotes.net/Members/ClaireM/weblog > > regards > > Mike Malloch _______________________________________________ COREblog-en mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://munin.nbi.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coreblog-en
