Hi Ciprian Cool. I'm very interested by your work. Can you make it available somewhere so that we can test ? (as a patch, or even just the CSS files)
I was actually starting to think about a grid-based skin too, after reading from http://cssgrid.net/ (this one base width is 1140px). Great to see interest going this direction. Jerome. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Ciprian Amaritei < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > While building custom website layouts on top of colibri skin I realized > that is very difficult to achieve some results without having a hard time > doing it. Colibri is not very flexible, being a bit difficult to change its > structure by overwriting vm`s. So you will always end up with a skin that > looks almost the same as colibri`s default one. > > I`ve been working last days on integrating a *fluid* grid system on colibri > skin using 960.gs. And I`m a bit surprised about the visual order that I > have achieved. > In addition, I removed some containers from the current markup, like: > > #xwikimaincontainerinner,#contentcontainer,#contentcontainerinner,#leftsidecolumns > without adding new ones. All I`ve done was just to add some classes to > couple of existing containers in order to arrange them smoothly in page. > Furthermore I managed to have a perfectly 960px (fixed) colibri skin by > commuting between css files (fluid and fixed). Of course everything is > scalable and fits nicely. It even works perfectly on IE6,7. > > Therefore I only see a lot of advantages in using a grid system. The only > con could be the adding of a new css file to the skin having a set of > predefined dimensions. But in my opinion it worth. Further development of > components will be easier. We can use predefined css classes, in this way > we > will speed up the work and keep a visual order of things on the page. > I would like to know wdyt about it and if you have knowledge about possible > issues that may occur and I missed them. > > There are lot of resources about grid based design for those who are not > familiar with the concept and benefits. I could recommend this > one< > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/14/designing-with-grid-based-approach/ > > > . > > Thanks, > Ciprian, > Designer at XWiki > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
