On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:11 PM, iain duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-18-09 at 19:37 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Kevin Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I think it looks great! >> > >> > Kevin Horn >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Florent Aide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I created a ticket #1992 in our trac and begun work on it. Attached is >> >> a screen grab of how it looks like on my machine. Sorry for the file >> >> size but trac did not accept my attachement. >> >> The text is not finalized and Ken is working on it right now. Please >> >> don't hesitate to comment, propose, improve whatever... >> >> >> >> The most important thing for me is not that we keep this design or do >> >> something radically different... It is that TG gets a new quickstart >> >> template that make people like their first sight of it. >> >> >> >> My opinion is.... >> >> I think it is a little too much. I think you got some talent as far as >> web design and I think I would love to have a page looking like that >> but if I was to modify it and use it for my project website I think it >> would be easier to modify original css template, stick with same >> colors and replace tg specifics url with my project specifics url and >> I'm done. >> >> So I'm looking for most fit (will fit 70% of cases where you develop >> business apps) and easy of adaptation. >> >> So for graphically appealing you get A+, but for business usability >> and adaptation C. >> >> I think the original version of css has (B in first category, and A in >> second) > > I think your point is well taken, but I disagree on the original, it was > not usable either. I do hard core css work for clients, and we'd never > use the TG one as a starting point. > > A good solution would be to break the css into three files: > > layout.css - layout only, can be based on one of the css frameworks > text.css - text formatting only ( fonts, letter spacing, etc ) > turbogears.css - the stuff that pulls in the visually appealing bits, > all images can be done as background images, colours as background > colours. > > If we do the above, all people have to is delete turbogears.css and they > wind up with what you are looking for with an A! > This will be awesome, we should also throw in a reset.css.
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