Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: design & presentation

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Posted by xx xx on
Hi Ben,

The designs you mention are free to use as far as I know, but the images have copyright on them.
You cannot expect the designs to work with <master> and <include>, however. Given the 'positional flexibility' of CSS, I expect this to be hard if we don't restrict use of CSS or structure all content pages in a similar way.
Currently, I'm reusing the designs in a package, that will allow users to create homepages online depending on the segment/contract. I haven't seen problems occur with the designs besides the fact that not all browsers are CSS-compliant.

For a plain adp file you could do the following.
- download the csszengarden html- and css files of the design you like
- look in the css file for image names and create new images with exactly these names
- edit the html file by cutting out css-zengarden text and replacing it with text from your ADP file.
- save the html file with replaced text, to the ADP filename.
- put images, css file, adp/tcl file in the correct directories and set file permissions (chown/chmod)
That should work if I'm not mistaken. If you are not familiar with css or html use http://www.handleidinghtml.nl (dutch) as your guide.