> > My personal taste is, that templating using xslt is one of lenyas > great sides - a bit of a learning curve, but very flexible - and done > in a standard way. OK - I see where your coming from - and would agree the method is very flexible - maybe we could provide more help on the learning curve with lenya documentation to make it easier for people to get into - that would certainly go some way towards closing the gap between the flexible approach and a templating mechanism.
I do concede though - that the flexible approach is better! > > If we'd like to attract designers we should provide a way to start > with the design without any programming or templating knowledge > (Photoshop, Fireworks templates). If the xhtml is clean, pretty much > everything can go into css - so delivering a bit of xhtml should do it. I agree and I do know a couple of designers who would provide input on this basis > > A fun way of doing a contest for the default publication could be a > publication where users can upload css files (and referenced images) - > a css zen garden lenya publication - but that might be quite some work > to setup. I think that would be very cool. Regards Vik Jürgen Ragaller wrote: > Hi Vik > > Am 24.08.2008 um 18:34 schrieb Vik Tara: > >>> >>> >>> * What do you think of the general idea of redesigning lenya? >>> >> A redesign would be great - but a templating system similar to that >> available in other cms systems would surely be better? >> >> >> Whilst we can create xhtml templates or hack the lenya xsl files - it >> would be much more elegant to be able to create a template and import it >> into the authoring environment. > > [...] > > For me establishing a new templating mechanism and redesigning lenya > are two different things. > > My personal taste is, that templating using xslt is one of lenyas > great sides - a bit of a learning curve, but very flexible - and done > in a standard way. > > If we'd like to attract designers we should provide a way to start > with the design without any programming or templating knowledge > (Photoshop, Fireworks templates). If the xhtml is clean, pretty much > everything can go into css - so delivering a bit of xhtml should do it. > > A fun way of doing a contest for the default publication could be a > publication where users can upload css files (and referenced images) - > a css zen garden lenya publication - but that might be quite some work > to setup. > > > > A much more demanding task is redesigning the cms authoring gui. > > > > Jürgen > > > null-oder-eins GmbH Zürich > web & graphic design > > www.null-oder-eins.ch > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: callto://ragaller > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
