In which case, I must stress right now that if its templates of the
second definition (site templates), then we really really need a
volunteer to document how to add a site template to a Radiant install.
Perhaps, we just need to extract carefully from the rake db:bootstrap
but we'll need to do it.
From now, I'm patient!
Cheers,
Mohit.
9/9/2008 | 11:09 PM.
Sean Cribbs wrote:
I will be defining more details today. Have patience, my children! ;)
Sean
Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
Christopher Dwan wrote:
Before this gets under way, would it make sense for someone to
define some standards/ conventions for building the templates?
It would be great if the templates that come out of this are
somewhat interchangeable, or tending in that direction.
I absolutely agree with you! We need to define 2 things:
1. Templates: Are they 'style templates' that apply to a standard
site type, e.g. to a blog, a company site, etc. - or are templates
'site templates' - including standard pages, etc. (e.g. Styled Blog
and Simple Blog in the current Radiant). We should define this so
that it's a little clearer what people will design. I think 'site
templates' are a bit of a pre-requisite for 'style templates'.
2. Standard sections: We should minimize duplication. Therefore, we
should try to reuse standard names as far as possible, exactly as
what you have suggested. Technically, for each site template, there
would be a set of standard snippets, parts, etc. These would include
site_menu, nav_bar, tags_area (for blog), tag_cloud (too specific?),
headings, header, footer, etc. This is what a style sheet would aim
to supply.
e.g:
Assuming primary navigation will typically / always live in a
snippet. Can we agree to generally always call it by a certain name,
e.g. 'nav' or 'navigation' or 'nav_bar' ?
I hope John & Sean can guide a bit in this area?
Radiant is beautiful in the way it allows so much freedom in the
layout and design of a site. On the other hand, if a series of
templates was created, it would be nice if they aren't all
approached in radically different ways... A little bit of
convention could go a long ways toward building momentum.
Convention over configuration of course :)
**Proposed action point:**
Would it make sense for someone to create a sqlite database or
packaged Radiant instance as a basis for all submitted templates?
I'm not very good at themes, but again, like Summer Reboot, I'm
willing to coordinate this!
Cheers,
Mohit.
9/9/2008 | 1:49 PM.
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