I second Tobi on his thoughts. On Oct 24, 1:26 am, Tobias Beer <beertob...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I would suggest you try and put the header inside the displayArea of > your PageTemplate and then play with firebug until you've found css > rules that work. > > Other than that - in terms of layouting - I find this seemingly simple > case to be a good example of the shortcomings in a standard > TiddlyWiki. Most themes seem to be variations of pretty much one and > the same layout. > > TiddlyWiki begs for powerful layouting concepts and templates that > allow you to arrange crucial elements just the way you want, like > PMario's unfortunately somewhat obscure freestyle project. For a web- > literate this task is in no way a difficult, even if time- > consuming ...however, for most end users, it really does constrain > your flexibility. > > Have a look at the TiddlySpace core theme. Does it not - instead of > creating a dedicated TiddlySpace-Theme-Recipe - simply try to > overwrite the (shortcommings of) the core TiddlyWiki distribution with > even more rules (to be overwritten later on)? > > If I had a way to turn back time in TiddlyWiki land, it would be to > ask for layout flexibility being a design tenet from day one. It just > woudln't make sense to me if backwards compatibility even stretched so > far as to make sure that the sidebar were always to your right. > > I'd think it rather were a relief if the core simply was stripped of > all layout preconfiguration going on in shadow tiddlers. Most of this > really has zero to do with TiddlyWiki's strong suit. There is no need > at all to declare someting as the offical way of looking at content > bits TiddlyWiki-style, even if that standard may be quite alright ...I > would not (want to) sacrifice (an end user's) design points of view. > > To sum this all up, I wish TiddlyWiki would ship but only with the > bare minimum of markup requirements ...everything else being packaged > as themes, if not "core themes". > > Best wishes, Tobias.
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