Re: Template Design Documentation Feedback

eddyyanto · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:42 am **Posts:** 801

I don't quite understand the statement "Template Design Documentation Feedback", compass.
Can i have my wish granted on the design documentation?
Do users have the right to suggest?
Correct me if i am wrong. :laugh:

compass · **Joined:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:31 am **Posts:** 1246

hang on a sec, give a a few minutes here.....

http://www.compassdesigns.net/resources ... -tutorial/

There you go...

Now we need a favor of the Templates forum:

This is a PREVIEW of the documentation. Its being linked so that those of you here at the template board can provide feedback. There will be a review period of about 1 week and then the guide will be copied to joomla.org.

Please use THIS thread to post your feedback, flames and comments!

Manuel70 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:02 am **Posts:** 82

Very, very nice, but check out the layout on Page 7:

http://www.compassdesigns.net/resources ... n-guide/6/

As I posted (and none seems to care) there's an ISSUE with the TOC:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,45756.0.html

Maybe you could do/tell something about this.

eddyyanto · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:42 am **Posts:** 801

I notice a little typo on page 4 of 11 :: http://www.compassdesigns.net/resources ... n-guide/4/

Quote:

Web standards put into place a common set of "rules" for all web browsers to use to show a web page. The main organization pushing these standards is the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3), whose Director, Tim Berners-Lee has the distinction of actually inventing the world wide web in 1989.

which should be:

Quote:

Web standards put into place a common set of "rules" for all web browsers to use to show a web page. The main organization pushing these standards is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), whose Director, Tim Berners-Lee has the distinction of actually inventing the world wide web in 1989.

TechGnome · **Joined:** Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:11 am **Posts:** 40

Definately in the uber-cool category. Very well laid out and informative. And it's exactly what I've been looking for on creating a template for my site. I've got it bookmarked and ready to go when I have the chance next to work on it.

A couple of things.
Page 5 - http://www.compassdesigns.net/resources ... n-guide/5/
In the listing for the customize.css - you have paddin where it should be padding.

Also, the code blocks where the sample php & css is spaces out very badly in FireFox. I checked it in IE and it looks normal in IE.

-tg

compass · **Joined:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:31 am **Posts:** 1246

Yes, I have went back and forth with using

 for that style. Its a PITA....

Scribe · **Joined:** Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:14 pm **Posts:** 241

Great content. Too bad I didn't have this when I started! I must agree on all the extra line breaks though, very distracting

larskuerten · **Joined:** Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:16 am **Posts:** 11

Great tutorial !, I read it in 2 days, this one plus joomlart.com does the trick.

Hardly you will need another tuto to start "templating".

lol ! My speech looks TV advertising

compass · **Joined:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:31 am **Posts:** 1246

Quote:

Hardly you will need another tuto to start "templating".

?

larskuerten · **Joined:** Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:16 am **Posts:** 11

I mean, both tutorials/sites are enough to start doing templates.

Because normally we waste a lot of time looking for goods tutos, and saving a lot of outdated/unnecessary stuff.

About the word, Ill teach you, template is a new verb :

I template
You template
....

So "templating" is the gerund/past participle.

Cheers
Lars

Custmguru · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:31 pm

It'll definitly help me as i start to throw together themes from here on out.

It's not much help for my current project, but you did give me links to the right place (i think) to find the help i need

SyntheticShield · **Joined:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:22 am **Posts:** 175

Oh my God! Who wrote this?!? It is absolutely WONDERFUL. I hope and pray they make this part of the Joomla documentation. Perhaps even make it part of the download of Joomla. Stick it in the templates directory so everyone gets it when they download Joomla.

I wish I had this when I first started working with Joomla. I read through it during my lunch break and it is a wonderful explanation and walk through Joomla templating. Hats off to all that were involved in making it.

compass · **Joined:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:31 am **Posts:** 1246

*raises hand*

PM jinx and tell him you want it in the 1.1 install

mingalababya · **Joined:** Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:50 am **Posts:** 12

compass wrote:

hang on a sec, give a a few minutes here.....

http://www.compassdesigns.net/resources ... ign-guide/

There you go...

Does this link still work? I'm getting redirected to the home page each time i click it.

kenmcd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:10 am

New link:
http://www.compassdesigns.net/resources ... -tutorial/

PDF version here (must register first):
http://www.compassdesigns.net/option,co ... Itemid,75/

compass · **Joined:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:31 am **Posts:** 1246

Thanks Ken! :laugh:

Jenny · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:02 pm

Great job Barrie. Well done!

mingalababya · **Joined:** Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:50 am **Posts:** 12

kenmcd wrote:

New link:
http://www.compassdesigns.net/resources ... -tutorial/

PDF version here (must register first):
http://www.compassdesigns.net/option,co ... Itemid,75/

Thanks for that and yes, very nice job on the tutorials too .. can I buy you a beer, Barrie?

compass · **Joined:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:31 am **Posts:** 1246

lol, maybe I should put a donate button somewhere...

Better idea, donate that beer to Joomla!

pbockenthien · **Joined:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:01 pm **Posts:** 41

Thanks for the awesome tutorial at compass design!

santosh · **Posted:** Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:40 am

The tutorials is great..thanks for posting it

Melkis · **Joined:** Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:34 am **Posts:** 11

I am very thankful for the tutorial. Now i can learn to made some CMS or upgrade it.... Even i never know about PHP or other programming language, Hehehehe

But i think i'm a fast learner and willing to made a New Era that Open Source will always alive and make the giant company like Mic***** broke. Hehehehe

kaeptn*haddock · **Joined:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:33 pm **Posts:** 8

Hello! I've loved reading this tutorial too, it contains a wealth of info! Layout and spelling don't seem perfect (seperate or separate? page numbers?) but content counts 10000x more than appeareance. Thank you very much for it!
What I'd be really interested in: is it possible to not only create custom css for modules/menus, but also for individual menu-items? I'd like to assign individual pictures to menu items. I'd appreciate a note here http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,113092.0.html, if someone knows where I can read up on this.
cheers
ch
ps if you ever are in Zurich I'll invite you for a beer (we can still donate one to joomla afterwards

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