[Yanel-dev] styling of from-scratch-realm

[Michael Wechner]

Simone Gerber schrieb:
> Hi
>
> I like the idea of making the from-scratch-realm more attractive by
> pimping the layout. But one has to be careful not to run into
> trouble with layouts, not only concerning license problems. I think
> the default layout should be:
>
> - minimal and/or
> - unique
>
> Before choosing/developing a default layout, some decisions should
> be made, respectively one has to make sure that it doesn't lead to
> further problems:
>
> - location and functionality of navigation
> - accessibility
> - browser compatibility
> - print version
> - extensibility of layout/possible restrictions
> - ... (?)
>   

very much agreed.

Maybe you can check these criteria with the "free" layouts which were 
suggested by Simon in order to shorten the list.

Thanks

Michi
> Simone
>
>
> simon litwan wrote:
>   
>> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>>     
>>> Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
>>>       
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> simon litwan schrieb:
>>>>         
>>>>> hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> in order to provide an attractive look for the from-scratch-template
>>>>> we should have a look at free layouts. since designing a layout, do
>>>>> the css and so on, takes a lot of time doing it right.
>>>>> we could save time by reusing an existing layout.
>>>>>
>>>>> for example:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.freelayouts.com/websites/html-templates/XHTML
>>>>> http://www.oswd.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> WDOT?
>>>>> simon
>>>>>           
>>>> Great idea! We should not spend too much time ourselves on that for a
>>>> result that would not probably be so good (well, I am thinking of my
>>>> own anemic artistic skills :P...)
>>>>
>>>> A Yanel theme or a theme contest some day would be great though!
>>>>
>>>> On a somehow related note, also see http://www.csszengarden.com/ and
>>>> http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/preview (this one is much more
>>>> basic though), although it it is designed (beware of copyrights ;) 
>>>>         
>>> good point, we need to be careful re license re the CSS we bundle
>>> within Yanel from scratch realm
>>>       
>> see http://www.oswd.org/site/usage/. it says every design has it's own
>> license. but i can not find the license information in the details of a
>> design.
>>
>> on  http://www.freelayouts.com/websites/html-templates/XHTML every
>> design has it's own license (but no way to search/filter by license
>> type). mostly creative commons. could not find any information about the
>> compatibility of creative commons and apache.
>>
>> i think it will be hard to find a design released under apache since
>> it's a software license and not a content license. we should find out
>> which content license is compatible with the apacheV2 license.
>>
>> or we should just chose a content license and release all the content of
>> yanel (e.g. xhtml,xml,css,png etc) under it. not sure this is possible.
>>
>> simon
>>     
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Michi
>>>       
>>>> again!) and advertised as a source for inspiration and CSS teaching
>>>> rather than mere copying.
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