Re: css design contest site development

[Matt Raible-3]

I'm open to anything, as far as enhancing this project and the
"showcase" application that goes with it.  My experience with porting
themes to AppFuse and Roller is that it might be pretty difficult to
generate themes for these.  The manual intervention step seems
somewhat important when dealing with CSS.

Matt

On 4/19/06, Paul Lofte <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I checked out the themes project and checked in a change to point the
> different styles at the same html source.
>
> I had to make some things common between your main page and andreas01.
>   I changed #tabs01 to #nav and a few other things.  nothing major.
>
> It's not perfect and I have not taken a look at the other styles yet.
>
> Can you think of a way do the footer credits and title / header
> changes for each style?
>
> should we put a database behind this thing?
>
> or....
>
> we could just have the style submitters include an xml file and we the
> parse the xml to do the credits like author, web site links and style
> title?
>
> On 4/19/06, Matt Raible <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On 4/19/06, Paul Lofte <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > Matt,
> > >
> > > Sorry for not starting this thread earlier.  I sent a message to the
> > > dev list on the java.net sight but then realized I should prob. be
> > > using the main appfuse mailing list.
> >
> > I've been recommending that messages are posted to the AppFuse user
> > list, but if we want these designs to extend to folks outside of
> > AppFuse, it's probably best to have discussions on our own mailing
> > list.  I've cc'd the dev@appfuse-user and users@appfuse so everyone
> > knows.  I'll also respond to your post to the mailing list in a
> > separate e-mail.
> >
> > As an FYI, I deleted all the mailing lists on appfuse-css so there's
> > only dev@ and commits@.
> >
> > >
> > > I didn't really know where the propper place for this topic would be
> > > since it's not a user or dev for appfuse directly???
> > >
> > > If you would rather have this type of conversation with the user list
> > > involved I would be happy to repost the message there.   I can't help
> > > but feel gun shy posting to the user list.
> > >
> > > Allthough I submitted a design for the contest, I've really been more
> > > interested in the development of the site and infastructure to show
> > > the different themes.
> > >
> > > I like what you did with the themes page and was wondering how you
> > > would like to procede on the development of the site.
> >
> > The themes page at http://css.appfuse.org/themes is pretty simple.
> > It's in SVN at trunk/themes.  Basically, it's a simple webapp with
> > JSTL.  There's an index.jsp that looks for directories and displays
> > links to ones it finds.  For the themes listed on this site, I just
> > grabbed them from JIRA and wget and unzipped them on the server.  I
> > could just as easily check them in to Subversion and will probably do
> > so eventually.  For the site at Kattare, I just cd into webapps/themes
> > and run "svn up" when something changes.  If you'd like, I can give
> > you the user/password to this server so you can update it as well.
> >
> > >
> > > have you progressed with putting together a system to use the same
> > > html but point the different CSS / images of each theme (I envision
> > > how zen garden does it).
> >
> > The only thing I have at this point is what's in css demo and shown on
> > css.appfuse.org.  The current application in "themes" does a good job
> > in showing what folks created, but it's not really showing the power
> > of a single HTML file and other themes.  I'm all for developing this,
> > or re-using what's in cssdemo.  We may have to remove some
> > AppFuse-specific stuff to get things going, and then add it back in
> > later.
> >
> > >
> > > I downloaded the source from java.net for cssdemo and got appfuse
> > > built, but was wondering if that was the right place to start from?
> > > it gets your basic user app up and running, is this where you want to
> > > start?
> > >
> >
> > I'm open to suggestions.
> >
> > > This has been interesting to me.
> > >
> > > sorry for all the hand holding, I hope I'm not bugging you.
> >
> > Definitely not - I'd love help on this - from anyone who's willing.
> > The best thing we can do is put something in place that's easy for us
> > to manage and update.  The first part is showcasing good designs, the
> > 2nd is making them easily downloadable.  From there, they need to work
> > well with AppFuse, which will likely require some work and
> > standardization among themes (i.e. images folder instead of "i").
> > Lastly, I'd like to develop a way to transform the HTML template and
> > CSS into a decorator and downloadable package for different systems -
> > like AppFuse, Drupal and Roller.
> >
> > http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?anchor=css_framework_design_contest_update
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Paul Lofte
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Paul Lofte
>
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