I'm trying to build a scheme and the accompanying forms and templates so that I can use ComSwiki to edit the rambling heavily hyperlinked section of my website called Notional Slurry (http://williamtozier.com/notionalSlurry.html), and render it for publication on my personal webspace. I may also eventually open some other swikis up for public editing, and the following questions apply to new templates for those, as well.
That layout is actually very simple. The original was created in DreamWeaver using their template functionality, and there are just three editable regions on each page: the title in the red block, the contents of the yellow column, and the contents of the white "body" column. We can disregard the various complexities of using tables and stylesheets and the "marginalia" style used for the right-aligned yellow blocks for the moment. So far I seem to be doing OK. I've created a new edit form in my desktop swiki with three edit regions, one for each of the blocks of content. And I've copied a good deal of the table and style code over from the original DreamWeaver version so that the three editfields are placed correctly in the resulting page. (Kudos, by the way, for making this so incredibly easy to do) But. I'd like to do a few more things, and they seem harder at this point (maybe just from lack of coffee or Squeak proficiency). First, the form I created still places the colored layout *inside* a standard swiki page. So the toolbar from the parent template (dock, in this case) still gets rendered over at the left margin, and the swiki "page title" and "Links to this page" text still appear on the top and bottom of my own content. I'd like to completely eliminate them. Where do I go, and what do I edit? That said, I don't want to eliminate their functionality entirely. Is there a way for me to include references to the page title or the "changes" button inside my own layout? For instance, I'd like the swiki page title to appear in the red bar at the top of my colored layout, rather than what I have now. I'd love to have a recentChanges link in my green menu region, but it will be a text rollover using styles, not javascripted. That sort of thing. Where do I insert a reference to an external stylesheet? Finally, it's tempting and seems appropriate to move things like my green menu bar over to one of the .sm external files, not just the rendered material from a form as it is now. I'm afraid I've lost the thread of who is rendering and referring to what: Where is the overall layout from which a page is created? In other words, is there a file somewhere that says "beforeButtons.sm \n buttons/sm \n afterButtons.sm..." and so forth? Or is that in the swiki code itself? Would I need to edit the code somewhere to include, say, tozierExtraContent.sm somewhere in the mix? Thanks for your help, Bill -- Bill Tozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that we have tried." -- Winston Churchill
