Owen Stubbs wrote:I didn't mean this to be a discussion of "mine" vs. "ours". I was trying to contribute to the thought process since I have been mostly on the receiving side of the s9y community.
I didn't, either, and you're of course welcome to contribute
Owen Stubbs wrote:The code is far from complete. I just barely have these concepts operational.
Owen, that's not the point
What we're trying to do here is provide a very basic layout concept as a starting point for new themes. Graphics, icons, colors, fonts etc. - that's
not what we want to provide, that's what template designers are supposed to
add to this vanilla template.
Let's have a car comparison: We provide the engine, the chassis, and stuff like that - after that, template designers can use this "framework" to add paintwork and interiors
Owen Stubbs wrote:I am neither a designer nor a coder.... merely a guy with a computer that likes to tinker.
Well, that's just what we all are
(Well,
I am. Dave actually knows what he's doing
) This is no contest, we're trying to work together to make doing new templates easier for everyone. So go ahead and dump that code of yours somewhere
Owen Stubbs wrote:I tried to d/l yours for a comparison, but the link you originally posted to the ZIP file was broken when I tried it.
Yeah, sorry about that, I had some difficuties with my ftp client.
http://www.yellowled.de/tmp/bulletproof.zip should work now. If you want to see it in action, take a look at
http://sandbox.yellowled.de. PM me for a login and password so you can have a look at the theme options we already have in the styles config.
Owen Stubbs wrote:Sorry - thought there were some concepts worth considering for your "bulletproof" template most notably treating page width items as 3 parts - left, center, and right, and treating sidebar items as 9 parts - styling these becomes a breeze. I thought this structure might open the door to those who have considerably more design talent than myself, increasing the template base for s9y.
They
are worth considering, but being a rather "non-graphical" guy,
I need to see code
Owen Stubbs wrote:If anything, what I have is likely to be very inferior to your code. I'm learning as I go, but you clearly have more experience in coding. I was merely presenting a few concepts that I had not seen discussed within this thread, but were worth considering for future templates.
Owen, I assure you: This is
not a contest. We
are happy about
any input. I'm really sorry if I gave any other impression
YL