BluePrint for CSS

We have moved to a full page design to allow maximal screen real estate to be available for list views & data entry. Ours is based on:

• ​http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-full-page.htm
• This was inspired by the work done on Sahana PHP: ​http://demo.respere.com/dnn/
• Link on doing something similar with the default web2py menu: ​http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/ecffcd0427af0fec

The logo font is Brush Script.

Main outstanding task on this is to have the Modules menu show which module we're currently in.

• The Auth menu already does this.

The Modules menu could be moved to a single dropdown - located below the Login box.

The Auth menu should be migrated to using the same style as the Modules/Options menus?

The CSS could still do with some cleaning up to remove unused styles.

We should include alternate layouts which different views can inherit from (common areas included into these to be DRY):

• Site home & Module homes act as portals, which require a more complex layout, such as:
  • 3 columns: ​http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm
  • Stackable: ​http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-stacked-columns.htm

CSS could be parsed as a template (included as a view) & thus have commonly-changed items (Logo/Colours) stored in the database (s3_theme).

• Would the minify script cope with this? (Could amend to have the editable file use keywords which are replaced by the braced variables in both debug/min)

Maximal usability ideas:

• ​http://www.alistapart.com/articles/progressiveenhancementwithcss

Replace the current menus with Breadcrumb-style Chevrons, e.g.:

• ​http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa

Enhance these with dropdown menus, like in T3:

• ​http://web2py.appspot.com/t3/default/wiki/main

Relevant Bugs:

• #3
• #9
• #14 (e.g. see: ​http://vita.sahanapy.org/init/pr/person )
• #17
• #18
• #19

CSS can be previewed in different Internet Explorer version, however no interaction is possible:

• ​http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

Original Sahana CSS documented here: DeveloperGuidelinesCSS

Right-to-Left theme

Ideally this should be as simple as:

body {
    direction: rtl;
}

Print View

Provide a view which allows for better Printing

• CSS sufficient? (media=print)

Mobile View

Provide a cut-down version for use on low-screensize, low-bandwidth devices, such as Mobiles

• CSS sufficient?
• ​http://mobiforge.com/Designing

Use the RESTlike CRUD controller's ?format=plain

Icons in Menus?

• ​http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/aeb21cca011e4632

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