TXP Template Contest : Starting a Pledge ! Will you sign up ?

Mary · 2005-08-08 18:23:48

Yeah at this point, lets wait the week for 1.0. Even though nothing should change before then, then we can say with full confidence that our layouts work in 1.0.

jufemaiz: For me, the magic size for images is about 450×300. I only like looking at larger if its supposed to be for desktop wallpaper. (Edit: ehehehehe, just realized what that sounds like…)

I need to get cracking on this.

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alexandra · 2005-08-08 18:34:59

> davidm wrote:

I was under the impression that the whole thing was now handled by the textgarden.org team… is it not ?

Hi DavidM , welcome back, we already missed you :)
well, the rules and regulations should be set up be the community here i think. The contest itself (thats how i did understand it) takes place over at textgarden.org then.

A schedule would be really nice. I did promise to care for the contest section and layout on textgarden so i would appreciate a deadline. My suggestion for the contest is sometime in October. Thats enough time to promote the contest, time for the designers and for discussioning the whole thing. What do you guys and girls out there think about it?

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davidm · 2005-08-08 21:16:28

Well, should I :blush: ? ;-p

Yeah I agree about October, somewhere between middle and the end should be fine…

And 1.0 coming in one week ?
Hell, I really am out of it, that’s nuts how fast things move around here when you go away for three weeks ! I have some reading and catching up to do…

alexandra · 2005-08-08 21:31:30

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, October 23rd?

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thebombsite · 2005-08-08 23:37:40

That sounds OK to me Alex. :)

Now I’ve just done a brand new install with r727 just to see what changes there are to default form and page templates. I then sat there staring at it thinking about how I might go about doing a design with it and came to the conclusion that it isn’t possible, unless everybody does a 3-column design, without changing the template in minor ways.

There are items included in both menus which means that if someone wished to create a 2-column design they would either have to move one set of tags to the other menu or do without those tags entirely.

Whilst there are minimal classes and ids in the page template there’s bugger-all in the forms.

I’m not sure if that may change at all before the week is out.

So can we agree that there are no plug-ins?

Could we possibly agree that no new form or page templates be created?

As for what we have, could we agree that we can move tags around and add classes/ids but not add or remove anything? If there is something you don’t want you can make it disappear in the CSS.

Is that too restrictive?

Should we be allowed to add TXP tags?

Should we simply create a template/s and form/s ourselves which everyone has to use and include as part of their style download file?

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marios · 2005-08-09 00:18:05

> thebombsite wrote:

> That sounds OK to me Alex. :)

Now I’ve just done a brand new install with r727 just to see what changes there are to default form and page templates. I then sat there staring at it thinking about how I might go about doing a design with it and came to the conclusion that it isn’t possible, unless everybody does a 3-column design, without changing the template in minor ways.

That summarizes it nicely in a contemplating manner.

Whilst there are minimal classes and ids in the page template there’s bugger-all in the forms.

Would it not make sense to have class hooks on all the static markup elements by default ?

As for what we have, could we agree that we can move tags around and add classes/ids but not add or remove anything? If there is something you don’t want you can make it disappear in the CSS.

You meant only moving around the mains:sidebar1, sidebar2 and content or allso the dynamic tags?

Should we be allowed to add TXP tags?

If so, a conventional list with the min or max tags allowed would make sense.

In any case if the template stays as is, could it be at least possible to remove the wraptag p attribute from the linklist,where it doesn’t make much sense(replace it with wraptag ul, in case that minimal form generation would be allowed.)

with best regards, marios

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thebombsite · 2005-08-09 00:35:15

Well you should be able to add classes/ids to anything.

By moving around I was thinking in terms of anything in the page template could be placed anywhere in that page template. Anything in a form template could be placed anywhere in that form template. For instance for me the first thing to move would be the content div tags, then I probably won’t want one or other of the menus but that can be sorted in the CSS rather than removing the tags from the template.

Actually I think the better way is to come up with an agreed set of templates which everyone works to, something along the lines that Jeremie was working on. At the moment the comment_form form still contains tables which most here dislike so if we could come up with something that was more along the lines of that contradictory phrase I hate – semantic mark-up – we would have something a bit more solid to hang our hats on. :)

marios · 2005-08-09 00:50:24

> thebombsite wrote:

> Well you should be able to add classes/ids to anything.

while checking the textgarden.org site recently(which came together quite nicely,I rrealized that the rule draft hasn’t been addressed there yet, so that’s why I was wondering about the initial draft.

By moving around I was thinking in terms of anything in the page template could be placed anywhere in that page template. Anything in a form template could be placed anywhere in that form template. For instance for me the first thing to move would be the content div tags, then I probably won’t want one or other of the menus but that can be sorted in the CSS rather than removing the tags from the template.

That’s what I ‘ve been thinking allso, the zen method, positioning rules and grabbing out of normal flow with floats, etc., so that’s why I didn’t mention it.

Actually I think the better way is to come up with an agreed set of templates which everyone works to, something along the lines that Jeremie was working on. At the moment the comment_form form still contains tables which most here dislike so if we could come up with something that was more along the lines of that contradictory phrase I hate – semantic mark-up – we would have something a bit more solid to hang our hats on. :)

May be there is a small missunderstanding,i n fact I’m quite enthusiastic with semantic markup , and I spend a big deal of time to learn all the necessary ingredients.But the thing is,if you want really have interesting things to happen with some divitis magic, that is not wrong either, and for some sites that would make sense. (Not every single site needs to be accessible from a handheld device)
Then about the tables,that wouldn’t bother me much either.Using tables in some instances makes sense.

So splitting in at least two different templates would make sense.

with best regards, marios

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thebombsite · 2005-08-09 01:20:13

It’s the phrase I hate not the philosophy. :)

alexandra · 2005-08-30 10:02:32

Hey all,
how about getting on with the issue ? :)

jbhis8up · 2005-08-31 20:39:19

Anyone ever considered “skinning” – or theming – the admin interface?

Just a thought.

-Josh

Mary · 2005-08-31 21:53:47

Yes. Is it possible? Not completely.

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