As I've stated a couple of times before, I'm going through the process of creating a new theme for IBM's updated internal blogging environment. For a variety of reasons (e.g. security, accessibility standards, branding, etc), we intend to lock down a users ability to reskin their blog template and instead focus on the selection of customizations from a preselected catalog. Users would be able to select a module, set some customization parameters specific to that module, then deploy it. The users should never have to mess with HTML or CSS unless they are designing a module for inclusion in the catalog.
- James Dave wrote: > On 3/1/07, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> new 4.0 proposal to provide stylesheet overrides for weblogs ... > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Stylesheet+Overrides+for+Weblogs > >> >> basically a way to allow weblogs to do stylesheet customizations without >> having to customize their theme and hack the templates, and instead >> provides a way to simple define a stylesheet page which overrides the >> default styles for the theme. >> >> please review and send your comments. > > -1 on this proposal as written. > > I don't think editing a CSS style sheet is the UI we want to enabling > theme customization. We can't expect users to know CSS. And there is > no standard set of CSS styles for each theme, so users will have to > examine HTML to figure out what styles can be set. > > - Dave >
