Mohit,
A long time ago, John solicited contributions of "templates" with the
opportunity for people to get them included in the main Radiant
distribution. I think this is a fabulous idea and I'd like to
reinitiate it. I'm going to up the ante some and say that the top
submissions will get a Radiant T-shirt and/or other swag in addition to
inclusion of their template in the core. I've been itching to get some
tangible Radiant goods out anyway. I'll put this up on the Radiant site
later and announce the link via the blog.
Sean
Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
Hi Guys
I was thinking of a couple of things regarding the ongoing
documentation effort and the recent request for converting a static
website to a Radiant based site and this got me wondering.
One of the questions that has been asked in the past is why Radiant
doesn't have any templates/ designs. Of course, I know the answer to
that - Radiant doesn't really care what you manage with it and every
site is unique and so, it doesn't offer anything.
On the other hand, the 'Blog' is offered as an example that people
could use.
If you think about it, Radiant is an absolutely fantastic replacement
for someone who wants to replace a static website such as a small
company website. In that case, would it make sense to add a couple of
other options to the db bootstrap - like 'small company website'. If
we do that, we could end up creating:
* A header and footer snippet
* A menu bar (standard top horizontal menu)
* Two layouts - one for the home page and one for a site page
* A stylesheet
* A few sections - Home, About Us, Press, Products, etc.
This has a few advantages:
[1] This could be a very simple site and we can align to use some
standard accepted names for the CSS classes. That way, it gives
others a set of sections that they could design 'templates' for. A
'template' might comprise a stylesheet and some graphics.
[2] It creates a more 'live' site that can simply be adopted and
adapted even by people who are less tech-savvy. Someone could install
it for them, and they can use it from there. The sample sections
would use just enough tags to help them get started.
What do you think? Does someone have something that they can
contribute towards this?
Cheers,
Mohit.
9/8/2008 | 3:35 PM.
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