James Taylor james.taylor@stealthnet.net wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
James Taylor james.taylor@stealthnet.net
What would the template need to match in terms of techincal spec - from this i mean does the engine (which I'm not familiar of what it is) allow multiple styles, does it need to have particular tags etc ...
It needs a div#main in the body, with title and space for the meta tags in the head, which will be filled with the page contents. There's a whole soup of tags, but all inside div#main (so you should still be able to style it differently should you wish).
It needs to be xhtml and preferably using css and being accessible.
I'm not sure what you mean by "allow multiple styles" there.
http://www.accessanet.com/modern/styleswitcher.html <-- has a version of what I am thinking about - there is a way of doing this in pure css wthout reloading the page however...
That's just your bog standard style sheet switcher, there's lots of things like that, to accomodate for IE you have to use some javascript to make the other stylesheets available, firefox will cheerfully let you select the alternative stylesheet from it's menus... Looks like that site doesn't actually use the usual method of <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="pathtotheotherstylesheet" type="text/css">, which can then easily be used with some evil javascript in IE, and just works in more modern browsers.
So, basically, if you have a design in mind, or 2, then maybe we should decide on what the basic classes for the template maybe? Maybe we need to decide on what the content is going to be also?
Thanks,