Hi Florian, * On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Christian Lohmaier wrote on 2013-05-03 21:33: > >> I have written so many times that sites can use their own >> css/templates, but everyone just complains that it is "inflexible" >> but never actually states the reasons. Why should it be different this >> time. > > maybe we should do a webcast on Silverstripe, a virtual workshop, to give > some insight? Might that help?
I don't think that people don't know how to use the Silverstripe backend, but rather that they don't like the look/style of the libreoffice-theme. But without real feedback that is impossible to tell. If people want fancy css/or host it at $other_cms or use manually created html - in all cases they would have to create their desired css. It would be trivial to adapt such a design for use with silverstripe. The documentfoundation.org theme was copied from the semi-static manual style (that's why it looks so "old" :-)) - the lo-theme was a iteration on that documentfoundation.org style to make it look a little bit more modern and use the LO-colors - but that's about it. You can see based on the frontpage, that "fancy looking pages" are no problem with silverstripe. Also http://www.silverstripe.org/community-showcase/ shows pages that different people did create. The problem definitely is not that "silverstripe is not flexible". But rather that people only say "the theme sucks" without providing a sample of how it should look instead. Demanding /me/ to write a new css-theme for you won't work, especially if you don't tell what exactly it should do. But telling me: "Hey, I want a site that looks like *this* (link to existing page, either manually created, created with another cms, doesn't matter - point is: use a page that works in a browser/) - please adapt that theme for use with silverstripe" is no problem. Extra points if the demo also defines how navigation for subpages should look like/work. So they don't even know how to write a theme (html-templates and css) for stilverstrype. They only need to create a demo with the look they want with whatever tool they prefer. But I can create a tutorial/workshop/video if someone tells me what exactly that should cover... ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
