Hi,

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:49 +0100, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> > Excellent idea. The wiki is the right place for this, so people can add
> > information as they discover it. There's the beginnings of a 'website
> > how-to' here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/how-to
> 
> I second that it is an excellent idea. I'm not so sure, however, whether
> the tone is right though of the current how-to. It reads a bit negative
> (boo collabnet/CMS), while it has serious advantages as well. Comments
> about breaking nicely formatted pages miss the point of a CMS (I read here
> nicely formatted as in nice colours chosen, custom styling etc.). I would
> rather discourage people to do custom formatting on a page. If you play
> nicely along with the rules of the CMS, it is easy creating pages. We
> should promote standards based pages, using semantic html, and prepare and
> explain some custom constructs like e.g. the campaign construct that is
> used in the test website, see e.g. the new main page or
> http://test.openoffice.org/help/

awesome comment on an awesome posting.

Whouhouuu...things get so sensible and constructive around OOo these
days. ;-)

> ps. Ivan, I think we should make it a class, so that in principle more
> campaign boxes can be used on a page... (not that this is necessarily a
> good thing... but...)

I think it is generally a good policy to reserve ideas for elements
which are 100% unique...whatever may come. Moreover, it is sensible to
use classes for everything styling and keep ids out of that, since that
creates a layer of flexibility between styling and javascipted accessing
of elements through their id.

André.

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