[themes] Anybody else catch this post?

Mon Jul 3 14:13:00 UTC 2006

I've been using Radiant CMS for the past few days, there's a set up 
similar to what is being discussed here... Everything is a page in 
Radiant, including the stylesheet. Then there are layouts examples of 
which are "normal, stylesheet, and xml feed." When a page is made a 
layout can be chosen per page. So if I create an html template called 
"Portfolio" I could choose that template instead of "Normal" to create a 
specific page. It addresses theming pages in a method that feels very 
natural. I'm not really doing it justice, try out the demo:

http://radiantcms.org/demo/

Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Op zaterdag 1 juli 2006 00:54, schreef Darrel O'Pry:
>   
>> but it seems like you really wouldn't be editing those all that often..
>> and if you laid you xhtml right the first time, a little <style></style>
>> in the node body goes a long way. Seems like overkill when the
>> technology is already there.
>>     
>
> I think Adrian and I are talking about "designs" that are simply not possible 
> ATM. 
> I have seen page.tpl.php files that have huge if()s around the whole <body> 
> tags, I have seen mytheme_page() function overwrites that choose One of a 
> list of special-page-*.tpl.php. I have seen people including 
> home-page.tpl.php files and so on. 
>
> All that to achieve very different layouts for some parts of your site. If we 
> had a default mechanism for that, as well as being able to edit/create such 
> special layouts on the site, it would make things a lot simpler. 
>
> So: a lot of sites will not need to override theyr themes in the database, so 
> purely web-editable-themes are a bit silly imo. But another lot of sites, 
> will need some flexibility to redesign certain pages in a breeze. Being able 
> to do that from the database (add special  theme page » edit xhtml » save) 
> could be the simplest way to achieve that.
>
> Bèr
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