[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-21 Thread mdipierro
Yarko, I like this. How about we simply add to what you did jquery.ui classes so we can style it using jquery? Massimo On Mar 20, 10:49 pm, Yarko Tymciurak wrote: > On Mar 20, 6:57 pm, Pepe wrote: > > > Hello, > > > i'm designer and before of that a human being, so i wonder: why make > > web2py

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-20 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
On Mar 20, 6:57 pm, Pepe wrote: > Hello, > > i'm designer and before of that a human being, so i wonder: why make > web2py less human readable? > > what's "ez-negmr" "ez-50"?? ez: the prefix that identifies it as ez-css; negmr, as Thadeus correctly pouinted out, is negative margin, and 50

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-20 Thread Thadeus Burgess
easy negative margin ?? easy 50 % width ?? I agree, I wish the class names were more "human", OTOH, with only a handful of classes it is not much to learn. -Thadeus On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Pepe wrote: > > i'm designer and before of that a human being, so i wonder: why make > web2

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-20 Thread Pepe
Hello, i'm designer and before of that a human being, so i wonder: why make web2py less human readable? what's "ez-negmr" "ez-50"?? the semantic of the most css framework is a problem, because they haven't. ...On the other hand: To have fewer elements is simpler to understand when you start

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-20 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
On Mar 20, 12:25 pm, mdipierro wrote: > Yarko did it! The new welcome with ez.css is in trunk. We still need > do add something to allow skinning and rearrange the css (right now we > have: > > applications/welcome/static/base.css > applications/welcome/static/calendar.css > applications/welcome/s

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-20 Thread mdipierro
Yarko did it! The new welcome with ez.css is in trunk. We still need do add something to allow skinning and rearrange the css (right now we have: applications/welcome/static/base.css applications/welcome/static/calendar.css applications/welcome/static/ez-plug-min.css applications/welcome/static/ez

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
On Mar 19, 2:24 am, mdipierro wrote: > I played with ez-css (which I like) but yet it reminded why I used > tables. Yeah - the presence of tables in the layout really causes troubles! > Here is my problem and I am sure it is just me being dumb. Say > I want a header, a footer and two columns in

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Thadeus Burgess
The whole UI paradigm is a pain, regardless of what programming language or platform. Windows Forms makes it easy, but still archaic. -Thadeus On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > >> Maybe the next version of CSS...

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > Maybe the next version of CSS... but as long as IE is around, growth > of web standards will always be stunted. Not CSS3, anyway. I'm doubtful anyway, since CSS is so heavily embedded in browsers. I think we're stuck with the basic model.

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Thadeus Burgess
Maybe the next version of CSS... but as long as IE is around, growth of web standards will always be stunted. -Thadeus On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > >> Its really not hard, and the box model is not that bad,

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > Its really not hard, and the box model is not that bad, its just > confusing and most don't know how to use it properly. That's not a good sign. > > http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2009/02/12/css-doesn%E2%80%99t-suck-you%E2%80%99re-just-

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Thadeus Burgess
There is a conspiracy that the google bot reduces the page ranking if it uses a table layout instead of css layout. I don't believe it though, since why would google NOT index something? The limitations of tables mean you can't reorganize your content, that is the beauty of css, you can take the

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > CSS does not suck, your just doing it wrong! > > Massimo, I have done this layout that you want many many times in css, > without a framework, ez-css makes this even easier. The author of ez-css is refreshingly candid, at least by implication

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Timothy Farrell
On 3/19/2010 9:27 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: CSS does not suck, your just doing it wrong! Isn't that supposed to be "Javascript"? CSS has never sucked, only IE's broken support for it. =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. T

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Thadeus Burgess
By the way, it is advantageous to SEO purposes to always have your HTML content physically in the order of relevance (meaning content before sidebar, site name before content, etc...). So having to define your content before the sidebar is a good thing! Regardless if its rendered location is diffe

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Thadeus Burgess
CSS does not suck, your just doing it wrong! Massimo, I have done this layout that you want many many times in css, without a framework, ez-css makes this even easier. And the way you describe it, ez-css does exactly what you want? Look at their layout 2. So the blue number 1 (1 comes first physi

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Abd Shomad
Dear Massimo, This is my first post to web2py :) I proposed to have a look at Fluid 960 Grid System [1] example. [1] http://www.designinfluences.com/fluid960gs/ What you want to accomplish is (almost) doable, except for the "static" part. If you resize the browser, the static area (left section

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:24 AM, mdipierro wrote: > I played with ez-css (which I like) but yet it reminded why I used > tables. Here is my problem and I am sure it is just me being dumb. Say > I want a header, a footer and two columns in between. I want the left > column of fixed with (a menu, 200px

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-19 Thread mdipierro
I played with ez-css (which I like) but yet it reminded why I used tables. Here is my problem and I am sure it is just me being dumb. Say I want a header, a footer and two columns in between. I want the left column of fixed with (a menu, 200px) and a right column to foll the rest of the space (cont

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-18 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
On Mar 18, 10:31 pm, mdipierro wrote: > The problem I see is that it is too simple. > sizeXofY does not seem to guarantee that all columns have the same > lenght (ez-css does it). > I like to have the menu column fixed width and the main column elastic > and it does not do that (not sure if ez-cs

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-18 Thread mdipierro
The problem I see is that it is too simple. sizeXofY does not seem to guarantee that all columns have the same lenght (ez-css does it). I like to have the menu column fixed width and the main column elastic and it does not do that (not sure if ez-css does). On Mar 18, 8:59 pm, villas wrote: > Ez-

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Fanjul
In deed I dont like grid css systems too much, because tends to slower my computer due to the use of zoom plugin in firefox (a must for my f*** 1920x1200px resolution in my 15" notebook)... in other words, the html rendering of miles of nested divs size-recalculated are a hungry cpu hole... ale

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-18 Thread villas
Ez-css seems like a good enough option, but before making your mind up, have a look at the simplicity of oocss.org/grids_docs.html (with Firebug). Oocss might give more possibilities, but admittedly, is heavier. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-18 Thread Thadeus Burgess
ez-css + jquery-ui It is the only proposed option I actually like. -Thadeus On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Mengu wrote: > i agree. i actually don't have any problem with jquery-ui since i'm > doing all my js work with jquery. ez-css seems cool yet it's hard to > implement so i'm still for

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-18 Thread Mengu
i agree. i actually don't have any problem with jquery-ui since i'm doing all my js work with jquery. ez-css seems cool yet it's hard to implement so i'm still for oo-css. :) On 15 Mart, 01:16, mdipierro wrote: > I think we should distinguish between a layout css framework (oocss, > 960, etc. inc

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-18 Thread mdipierro
This seems nice and small: http://www.ez-css.org/screencast -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegr

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-14 Thread mdipierro
I think we should distinguish between a layout css framework (oocss, 960, etc. include it) and a content css framework (jquery ui only does this). Perhaps we can pick the layout css from one place and the content css from jquery. It is important that class names are easy to read and we can fit eve

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-14 Thread johntynan
While I admire and would welcome having the option of using 960 grid templates, Massimo's suggestion of incorporating jquery's themeroller into the welcome app sounds equally interesting. I'm not much of a designer, but I value the ideal of a tableless design. I'd be willing to try to free up som

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-14 Thread mdipierro
Ideally if we could make the welcome app use or at leat friendly with http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ it would be nice. On Mar 13, 9:35 pm, villas wrote: > On Mar 13, 4:05 pm, Mengu wrote: > > > i still recommend oocss as css framework. a lot easier, a lot better. > > @Aure. > Sencss. Good styl

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-13 Thread villas
On Mar 13, 4:05 pm, Mengu wrote: > i still recommend oocss as css framework. a lot easier, a lot better. @Aure. Sencss. Good styles, but I don't think it helps with the tableless layout? BlueTrip. Great looking framework, but like Blueprint, it's a comprehensive grid-based which is probably best

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-13 Thread Mengu
i still recommend oocss as css framework. a lot easier, a lot better. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-13 Thread aure
Other interesting ones: http://bluetrip.org/ http://sencss.kilianvalkhof.com/ On 12 mar, 13:33, Johann Spies wrote: > On 11 March 2010 06:11, villas wrote: > > > Obviously if anyone else thinks they have an idea to move towards a > > well-tested div layout using a good naming scheme (preferably

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-12 Thread Johann Spies
On 11 March 2010 06:11, villas wrote: > Obviously if anyone else thinks they have an idea to move towards a > well-tested div layout using a good naming scheme (preferably borrowed > from a mainstream project which already has some templates) then do > please mention it. I am only starting on we

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-10 Thread villas
Yes, I will continue to look to see if I can make a good suggestion. If and when I find something interesting/appropriate I will of course post it here for consideration. Obviously if anyone else thinks they have an idea to move towards a well-tested div layout using a good naming scheme (preferab

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-10 Thread mdipierro
david, feel free to provide a solution, i.e. a new better welcome/ views/layout.html and css. The only requirements for me are not change MENU (for backward compatibility) and keep menu without JS. Massimo On Mar 9, 6:41 am, villas wrote: > On Mar 8, 10:31 pm, mdipierro wrote: > > > Why do we

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-10 Thread FaustCoder
I agree with David. I'm just beginning web development (so my opinion may not matter to some...) however I feel as if today the web is about being attractive as it is about being functional. One of the primary reasons for choosing web2py is it's flexibility, simplicity, and core functionality. Even

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-09 Thread villas
On Mar 8, 10:31 pm, mdipierro wrote: > Why do we need a grid system again? Why does this belong to web2py? I > am not convinced. I didn't know that you previously had a grid and I agree that divs are not so easy and tables are more predictable and reliable. However, tables will seldom be chosen

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-08 Thread mdipierro
On Mar 8, 4:44 pm, Albert Abril wrote: > As said by villas, I think this is the principal goal: > > 1. A clear goal of moving from table to divs. Problem. web2py welcome was based on DIVs and them we moved BACK to tables. Why? Because with DIVs having multiple columns where some have fixed width

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-08 Thread Albert Abril
As said by villas, I think this is the principal goal: 1. A clear goal of moving from table to divs. 2. A web2py list of semantic names to name certain sections of the page. If in 2, we take references from wordpress or some cms, it would be easier to import templates from them. On Sun, Mar 7, 2

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-08 Thread mdipierro
Why do we need a grid system again? Why does this belong to web2py? I am not convinced. I only suggested 1) a better admin. 2) ability to choose among different web2py scaffolding apps. Perhaps one of the options can be 960, another couse can be BlueprintCss. Massimo On Mar 8, 4:08 pm, villas wr

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-08 Thread villas
I had another look around. Here are my notes ... YAML: Creative commons licence with backlink. Unacceptable, right. Golden Grid: MIT licence seems good and the size is tiny. Would be great to include, but the project doesn't seem active enough, so I'm not so sure. Blueprintcss: MIT and well

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-08 Thread mdipierro
I vaguely remember somebody buiding a web2py app for this some time ago but I cannot find it. Massimo On Mar 8, 8:02 am, aure wrote: > Looking for more info about OOCSS, I just stumbled upon > that:http://www.yaml.de/en/ > > (It seems to also make use of jQuery in some ways.) > > I am no expert

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-08 Thread villas
On Mar 8, 2:02 pm, aure wrote: > Looking for more info about OOCSS, I just stumbled upon that: > http://www.yaml.de/en/ Hi Aure, I was vaguely aware of YAML, but on your suggestion I took another look and I see they now have a fantastic "YAML Builder". I haven't really played with it much, but

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-08 Thread aure
Looking for more info about OOCSS, I just stumbled upon that: http://www.yaml.de/en/ (It seems to also make use of jQuery in some ways.) I am no expert, but it looks interesting to me, so I thought I would mention it. Aurelien On Mar 7, 6:21 pm, villas wrote: > On Mar 7, 11:37 am, Mengu wrote

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-07 Thread villas
On Mar 7, 11:37 am, Mengu wrote: > if anyone is going to do the design work, i recommend oocss at www.oocss.org Hi Mengu, I've never heard of this, but like the fact that it's based on YUI but still seems simple and flexible to use. It's appealing to start off with their solid foundation which y

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-07 Thread Mengu
if anyone is going to do the design work, i recommend oocss at www.oocss.org On 7 Mart, 12:29, villas wrote: > An example layout page I looked at had: > > > > > > > > > > > Clearly it leaves much to be desired,  but maybe it would help if we > agreed: > 1. A clear goal of moving from tabl

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-07 Thread villas
An example layout page I looked at had: Clearly it leaves much to be desired, but maybe it would help if we agreed: 1. A clear goal of moving from table to divs. 2. A Web2py list of semantic names to name certain sections of the page. 3. Perhaps longer term, move forms towards fieldsets

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-07 Thread mr.freeze
1) Sounds good. If we can't have a choice of theme in admin, at least we can get a better looking one. 2) Good idea! On Mar 7, 1:50 am, mdipierro wrote: > I think there are two different issues. > 1) have a better looking admin > 2) give more options for scaffolding app (this include a choice of

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-06 Thread mdipierro
I think there are two different issues. 1) have a better looking admin 2) give more options for scaffolding app (this include a choice of layout) 1) So far using a wordpress-like css would be my preferred choice. 2) The problems is that we cannot package too many files with the scaffolding app bec

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-06 Thread FaustCoder
+2 On Mar 6, 8:55 am, "mr.freeze" wrote: > They are under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license - free for > use commercially or non-commercially provided you put a link somewhere > in the template back to freecsstemplates.org. Even this can be > bypassed with the author's permission. They

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-06 Thread John
There's also http://www.blueprintcss.org/ which appears to be fairly open in its licensing. I think it might be GPL though so it would possibly "taint" the application template. It may still be a nice option for admin. On Mar 6, 9:55 am, "mr.freeze" wrote: > They are under the Creative Commons

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-06 Thread mr.freeze
They are under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license - free for use commercially or non-commercially provided you put a link somewhere in the template back to freecsstemplates.org. Even this can be bypassed with the author's permission. They can be modified and redistributed. That doesn't se

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-06 Thread mdipierro
The problem here is legal. We cannot distributed with the scaffolding app, page templates that have a restrictive license. The current template is not great but is made of images and css that are public domain so no problem is you build on those. I proposed wordpress theme for admin (and admin onl

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-05 Thread Jason Brower
But then this isn't automated. First time I have seen it, so if it's in the application built in I missed it. And let's not forget lots of us, like me don't have internet all the time. BR, Jason On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 20:27 -0800, mdipierro wrote: > Why when they can already chose hundreds from we

Re: [web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-05 Thread Jason Brower
+1 I think beginners would especially like it as they can pick the theme they like. I think what might be a step in an even cooler direction would be a color selector that helps you setup your css to the color theme you like. It's very helpful to me, as design is something I go for right away. (I

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-05 Thread mr.freeze
What about at least giving admin a facelift using one of them? Got a favorite? On Mar 5, 10:35 pm, "mr.freeze" wrote: > > Why when they can already chose hundreds from web2py.com/layouts > > Not without installing an experimental plugin. I'm talking about > something more refined and better integ

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-05 Thread mr.freeze
> Why when they can already chose hundreds from web2py.com/layouts Not without installing an experimental plugin. I'm talking about something more refined and better integrated. On Mar 5, 10:27 pm, mdipierro wrote: > Why when they can already chose hundreds from web2py.com/layouts > What somebody

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-05 Thread mdipierro
Why when they can already chose hundreds from web2py.com/layouts What somebody should actually do is go over them all and delete some. Some do not look very nice because tha conversion process broke them. Massimo On Mar 5, 10:24 pm, weheh wrote: > +1 > > On Mar 5, 11:19 pm, "mr.freeze" wrote: >

[web2py] Re: web2py beautification

2010-03-05 Thread weheh
+1 On Mar 5, 11:19 pm, "mr.freeze" wrote: > Idea: tweak 10 (or more) of the best gpl css templates we can find to > work with web2py and give people a choice of templates when they > create an app.  Also, change admin to use one of these.  I think the > welcome and admin apps look too utilitarian