Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: What should I be doing differently?

10: Re: What should I be doing differently? (response to 1)

Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/28/09 11:12 PM

I now have the Layout-Manager working. Wow! What a great piece of work. Really exciting development.

I have set the display to the Layout-Managed-Subsite-Tabbed. Now in its own right this is superb, and I can really see the potential for flexibility of format once you start customising the CSS.

I notice that the XoWiki included index page does not respect the embedded xowiki column defs as it usually does. Is that expected behavior? All my elements on the xowiki index page are left aligned and full width.

Also, I am experimenting with arranging a page with two columns and four includelets, but this seems to be escaping me at the moment. I was expecting to see something like the 'news' and 'latest posts' boxes on the OpenACS.org site.

12: Re: What should I be doing differently? (response to 10)

Posted by Don Baccus on 09/29/09 02:17 AM

Theming's reasonably simple now.

Here's mine - http://donbaccus.com/ - you won't see much because all the good stuff is limited to clients I'm working with but you'll see a hint.

Here's another one:

http://learningcenter.lta.org/register/?return%5furl=%2fltalrn%2findex

Where again you won't be able to see much due to the fact that it's an intranet.

But those navigatino tabs, the banner, footer, etc are all generated by a theme package for the site.

13: Re: What should I be doing differently? (response to 12)

Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/29/09 10:54 AM

Yes, they look really good, and to be able to achieve that without having customise is a huge plus.

I wondered how you'd brought the login form forward, and then I saw the default page was register/index. What a good idea.