Re-Skin-ning
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- W Shealy
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Andy:
I have been thinking about using several recent templates for different parts of my new site. However, I want one overall look. So I was thinking have you ever considered a way separate the look form the structure and features of a template. From looking at under the covers it does seem that you have some conventions that are consistent across your designs. Any suggestions adopting one skin/look across templates.
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Wallace
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- W Shealy
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I guess I was the only one thinking about this since it got no response at all.
Maybe you can point me to a discussion of if you have a design convention. That would make it possible for me to merge css from an old template with a more feature rich current design. One of my sites uses VIII look but I would love to be able to migrate the basic design mostly my chosen colors and the clean look (white) background to the more current templates.
For example using hive for the blog page, pop for user group/discussion, and media for a place to aggregate a bunch of stuff kind of like ijoomla's portal used to do.
Anyway I am struggling to with how to have the same look (skin) across a site that uses multiple templates formats for different sections. Maybe if you have a standard internal convention it would help me figure out how to do this. If your designs conventions are such that I could basically match up the section and migrate the design.
Although I think a separate set of skins that could be applied to a series of different functional templates would be cool. It might also allow users to upgrade to more feature rich templates without loosing the basic look of the site. Just thinking out loud what if style89 was always the VIII or other popular look that would allow an upgrade. That way you could pick one design/art look and use any template.
There have been a number of templates that had cool features and even great designs that just weren't appropriate for my sites but I would love to have the media, populus, or hive structure or features.
I'm guess I'm going to struggle with reskinning several of the current templates. Guess I'm diving in to do major rework in html & CSS.
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- James Spencer
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- There is no real easy way of doing that without just doing it *line by line*
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- Matthew
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It seems to me that the main reason that one might wish to use multiple templates across the same site would be for different module layout options.
IMHO, the best way to keep a consistent look is to actually use the same template. There are two major approaches to this:
1. Make multiple copies of the template, and tweak each one as needed.
2. Keep one copy of the template, but add some php branching code so that the module configuration "morphs" depending on various triggers.
I started with the first method, but tend to prefer the second now, mostly because the last thing that I want to do is to keep track of multiple templates on a single site. - www.gofftech.com Web Design
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