On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:19 PM, alinome.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> While using BoltWire, new ideas come into my mind:
>
> I'm creating a new version of a site design. I copied the old skin,
> styles and zones with the name of the new design. Then I simply change
> the skin in site.config and started modifing.
>
> But then I realized there were some templates to be changed too. I use
> them to list news in the home page, and to show articles extracts from
> another section. I needed to change them because of the new general
> design: They could not be adapted only by CSS. I didn't think about
> this before: it seems templates don't belong to a specific design,
> like skins, styles and zones, right?
>
> Of course I can copy a template, e.g. "template.articleextract", and
> rename it "template.mynewdesign.articleextract", that's what I did,
> but I have to change its name in every search function that used the
> old "template.articleextract", from "articleextract" to
> "mynewdesign.articleextract". It would be nice if templates would be
> searched like zones, skins and styles. Then it would be a bit easier
> to create new designs from old ones, keep all of them together, and
> change from one to another.
We could of course set up a {skin} variable (or a site.config info
var) and use that in defining the template name, ie
template=something.{site.config::skin}...
I'll look into adding a line in the template code that will
automatically check for template.skin if it exists and then default to
template if not. That would be easier.
Cheers,
Dan
> By the way, there's a terminology issue here too. "template", "layout"
> and "design" are generally used on the web to mean what BoltWire calls
> "skins"... But BoltWire's "skins" consist of "styles", "zones",
> "templates" and -- "skins"! In this message I used "design" instead of
> the usual term "skin".
>
> Cheers,
> Marcos
>
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> http://alinome.net
> >
>
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