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Message:*	SAMPLE [quote] snow wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Yes it does present problems. Making it look ok in multiple browsers isn't that easy and IE causes a lot of problems. I'll be fixing the problems during the following days. ( I won't go on vacation). So it would help me that I get reported as many bugs possible like the right column being misplaced in IE, some links not visible in the forum. When a bug is reported please tell also the browser and browser version the bug is presented in. About making it flexible width there's some part of the layout that would have to be redone for this, mostly because of the shadow effects on the sides of the page and because the header main image on top has rounded corners. I will try to make a flexible version without adding more tables but that will take me more time, past the due release date. (also my availability won't be very much during january because I'm moving house, so if someone else can do it quicker, I can send the photoshop of the theme). Personally I don't like 100% that much. Most people have bigger screens now, and having all the content spread all over isn't nice and it makes it hard to read extra long lines. I prefer compact where the page size is somewhat similar to a normal printed page. If you look at large news sites like: http://www.time.com/time/magazine http://espn.go.com/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/ http://www.usatoday.com/ ... they all manage a fixed width around 980 pixels. The clue I think is in managing block displays the right way. For example maybe the left or right column may not be needed at all or maybe just have both visible on the home page if needed but all the inner pages I think it would be better to display the left or right column but not both of them the same time. An evaluation of the community.impresscms.org blocks is needed I think. For example [b]user menu / user login[/b] is integrated into the theme at the top right (those blocks could be disabled). [b]Main menu[/b] block is integrated to the theme as the submenu bar below the tabs ( it could be disabled too). [b]Local support sites [/b]and [b]community sites[/b] blocks, I have proposed to place hardcoded inside the theme at the footer (like all those web 2 kind of sites that have a bunch of links at the bottom), so these blocks could be disabled too. [b]Bookmarks[/b] is also integrated into the theme in the footer part, this block could be disabled too; if this is approved to stay I'd like James to revise the code for this part cause he knows more about these social features. I think all blocks could go either all in the left or all in the right, cause splitting them into left and right columns occupies more than the necessary space. Also I think I read something about fixed width not going according to accesibility standard (not sure if it was here or at the sourceforge xoops forum where they are talking about a theme contest). I'm not fully informed about accesibility but I don't think this is true. If it weren't [i]accessible [/i] those big news sites I just showed wouldn't use it and that's what stylesheets are for. There's stylesheets for web display, stylesheet for printing, for handheld... Well those are the reasons I think impresscms can have a fixed width theme. For now I'll go bug hunting with the current theme to leave it finalized.[/quote] [more...]
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Re: ImpressCMS Theme

by thomas on 2008/1/2 23:19:28

Im sorry to bring it back to the top. I wasn't thinking because it would have been better to pm someone. Sorry...

Re: ImpressCMS Theme

by thomas on 2008/1/2 21:23:55

Hey people!

I have been on here reading for a few hours. Here is my first contrib. The impresscms theme is just that impressive. Anyway I have been reading where a couple of you would like to keep this theme unique to impress. So you need to clean up this thread a little. Unless this is a private forum that you over looked on my permission.

Anyway I'll keep looking around and maybe I will find some other stuff to help you tighten up ship.

Re: ImpressCMS Theme

by davidl2 on 2007/12/23 14:15:10

Vauhan - I think it would be a good idea to include - especially as we where considering including some of its features in the core.

Can you install this tomorrow while I'm at work?

Thanks

Re: ImpressCMS Theme

by Vaughan on 2007/12/23 12:05:19

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I was mainly talking about block positioning which I think it's the site admin that does this. The theme is already configured so the center blocks display as the screenshot preview posted before.

smartblocks would make a useful addition to block management.

you can select which blocks appear on all pages, and you can also set which column & weight order individually for each page. so if you don't want the right column visible in 1 particular page, you can set it so some of those blocks in the right column are moved to the left column just for that page.

it's a bitch to setup correctly & to get used to it, but once it's running right, it does it's job very well. but there are a few bugs here & there and some minor annoyances which could be improved on here & there.

just thought i'd mention whilst we were on about the site design & block positions etc..

Re: ImpressCMS Theme

by davidl2 on 2007/12/23 10:00:35

Ok - i've moved some of the old feeds etc onto "dummy module" Headlines/Comments - so only the recent posts are visible on the homepage.

This is only so we can get more of an idea now...

ImpressCMS is a multi-language content management system for the web. It is community-built, an open source project and based on the common web technologies of PHP and MySQL.

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