Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-05 Thread Janine Sisk
Thanks to Jerry and everyone else who replied and sent sample code! Fortunately this is one of the few concepts I've encountered in WO World which was actually familiar; I've used a very similar sort of nested templating in the past. I really appreciate all the help, though - this communi

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-05 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Marinating it and letting it soak in a bit first makes it easier to chew ;-) On Jun 5, 2007, at 7:18 AM, Jerry W. Walker wrote: The advice you've gotten is good advice but may be a bit hard to chew on your first WO app. ___ Do not post admin requ

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-05 Thread Jerry W. Walker
Hi, Janine, The advice you've gotten is good advice but may be a bit hard to chew on your first WO app. To make it easier, I'm providing a sample textual schematic of a simple WO application with: * a page header * a page footer * a page wrapper (that invokes the header, the foote

RE: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew Lindesay
Hello Janine; now I want to make it look nice, and I'd like to do something a bit more sophisticated and less inefficient than putting duplicate HTML I've also got an interesting bent on the "page wrapper" idea which you may like to read about to get some ideas... http://homepage.m

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread Janine Sisk
Thanks, Kieran (and David)! This is the first WO app I've built, so although I do have a lot to learn, I also don't have too much to unlearn. Let's hope that's an advantage here. ;) janine On Jun 4, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: No copying and pasting is required! You just make

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread Kieran Kelleher
No copying and pasting is required! You just make reusable components stateless with manual binding sync is better http://homepage.mac.com/kelleherk/iblog/C1133025376/E1896801830/ index.html If you want a component that wraps content, then just put a WOComponentContent in the component

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread David Holt
That's what I thought ;-) You use a PageWrapper component that contains a WOComponentContent. This will be a page-level component. Then you make all your current "pages" partial pages wrapped in your PageWrapper component. You can make reference to the CSS stylesheet in the header section

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread Janine Sisk
Thanks, Kieran, that looks like a great book. I need to be more specific, however; this is a very WO-centric question. I want to be able to have a header and footer on each page, include a CSS, and so forth. What's the best way to do that? In past lives I've done this sort of thing with

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread David LeBer
On 4-Jun-07, at 10:59 PM, Janine Sisk wrote: I've got my application working more or less the way I want it to; now I want to make it look nice, and I'd like to do something a bit more sophisticated and less inefficient than putting duplicate HTML in all my components. But I can't find an

Re: Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread Kieran Kelleher
This is my favorite book on making it look pretty (you may need to remove line-breaks from these long URLs): Web-Standards-Solutions-Handbook http://www.amazon.com/Web-Standards-Solutions-Handbook-Pioneering/dp/ 1590593812/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4168457-0812804? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181012633&sr

Making a WO app look pretty

2007-06-04 Thread Janine Sisk
I've got my application working more or less the way I want it to; now I want to make it look nice, and I'd like to do something a bit more sophisticated and less inefficient than putting duplicate HTML in all my components. But I can't find any sort of documentation on how this should be