Changes between Version 58 and Version 59 of Projects/Design

Timestamp:

12/01/14 08:24:31 (10 years ago)

Author:

Pat Tressel

Comment:

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Projects/Design

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   https://github.com/flavour/eden/tree/master/static/themes [[br]]
   Check with the mentors to pick a good directory name. Eventually, your new theme may replace the default theme.
-* Provide a better landing page.
-* Provide a better overall page layout. This will go in a new template (or be used in the current default template), but that is not part of this task, so you can add a new template directory here:[[br]]
+* Provide html files for a template.  This will go in a new template (or be used in the current default template), but producing
+  a complete template is not part of this task, so you can just add a new template directory here:[[br]]
   https://github.com/flavour/eden/tree/master/private/templates/ [[br]]
-  with the same name as your theme directory. Add a "views" subdirectory there, and put your new layout.html and footer.html there.[[br]]
+  with the same name as your theme directory. Add a "views" subdirectory there -- your new landing page and layout files can go there.[[br]]
+* Provide a better landing page. This is called index.html, and it goes in the views directory you added above.[[br]]
+  You can see examples of index.html files in many of the templates. The current default template does not have its own index.html file.
+  It is using this one:
+  https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/views/default/index.html
+* Provide a better overall page layout. The files for this are layout.html and footer.html.[[br]]
   You can look at the current default files here:[[br]]
-  https://github.com/flavour/eden/tree/master/private/templates/default/views/
+  https://github.com/flavour/eden/tree/master/private/templates/default/views/ [[br]]
+  There are also examples in the other templates.
 * Design a better appearance. Try to control the appearance mainly through CSS rather than hard-coding it into the HTML. Look at the other themes
   to get an idea of what files you need to provide:[[br]]
   https://github.com/flavour/eden/tree/master/static/themes [[br]]
-* Check that your design works with all the standard page types (see [#DesignaSahanaEdenTheme Design a Sahana Eden Theme]), e.g. list pages, create pages, etc.
+* Check that your design works with all the standard page types, e.g. list pages, create pages, etc.
 * You can include more page designs (e.g. module landing pages, dashboards, profile pages) if they are important to your design (or you'd like to show your accomplishments!).