James M Snell wrote:
While I definitely agree that there needs to be an easier way of
customizing templates (I've got a couple of thousand users who would
*strongly* agree that there needs to be an easier way of customizing
templates) I'd be wary of addressing it piece by piece. I (and I
believe my users) would be much happier if the total customization
experience was addressed all at once).
I would love to do it all at once and I am actually trying to do that to
the best of my abilities with these proposals for 4.0. Basically all of
the things I am aiming for are features to help improve the usability
aspect of weblog customization *and* i had actually started grouping all
of my proposals under that banner ...
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Easier+Weblog+Design+Customization
I have 2 more proposals which I plan to add to that ...
1. The proposal for making an icon and "about" section standard
attributes of a weblog. This was already discussed as being part of 3.2
but I've deferred it and plan to do it together with the other proposals
I listed.
2. A proposal for doing widgets, similar to what other blog systems
have. This is the really big piece and the one that users will most
likely get the most mileage out of.
All together that would make 5 proposals all pretty much centered on
making the blog customization process easier. Ideally, once all these
features are designed and the proposals are agreed upon I could get some
level of help from other folks who are interested in these things to
make sure we can get them done in time for 4.0. It's quite a bit of
work for 1 person to do and if I have to fly solo then that would be the
reason why we wouldn't introduce all these things at the same time.
-- Allen
- James
Allen Gilliland 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.
-- Allen
