[geeklog-modules] Suggested CSS standards for plugins

[Simon Lord]

> I say hurrah.  I would even go so far as to suggest a common set of 
> generic templates.  Providing and requiring the use of a more 
> consistent GUI would make it easier for everyone - Programmers, 
> Themers and Users alike.  Of course to make it work it will have to be 
> well documented.

The templates already exist.  However, no one has the time at the 
moment to document it all.  Dirk is maintaining/supporting it to a 
degree but I haven't had any free time lately.  I've been working with 
Blaine to help him update the forum and we figured it would be easier 
to weasel in our efforts slowly by integrating a subset of the work 
we've done to date on the templates just on the forum specifically.

The issue at hand is that maintaining a module as complex as the forum 
is a real pain in the ass if it's not somehow tied to the theme.  What 
I mean by this is that lots of Geeklog users put some solid hours into 
designing creative themes only to have that work thoroughly VOIDED by a 
non compliant module because they are NOT designed to be theme 
friendly.  So Blaine and I spent the better part of a year trying to 
solve this issue through css.

The idea is to *suggest* to module developers to use an approved list 
of css tags that would be tied into the entire theme.  This way simply 
dropping a new module into any GL installation would result in that 
module INSTANTLY looking like the current overall theme of the site and 
saving the site owner hours if not days of hard work.

That said, understand that all this work is already done, please don't 
go and try to create some common set of generic templates and css 
standards.  Blaine and I spent a year doing this already (with Dirk's 
loving approval).  I just need some free time to create a design 
document for it, hopefully Blaine can create something on a smaller 
scale for module developers while I author one for theme developers.(?)

Maybe during the Holidays?

>  --
>  Tom Willett
>  tomw at pigstye.net
>
Sincerely,
Simon
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