Re: Best Practice Template development

The "corpv2" set of templates is a full different 
and refactored set of templates. V1 was using 
classical HTML. V2 was fully refactored in order 
to only use CSS. The look and feel is also different.

So if you want to try both sets of templates, the 
most conveniant way is to create two distinct 
virtual sites on your developement server and to 
play a bit with each set of templates. For the 
corpv2, you will find the source code in this 
repository: http://svn.jahia.org/svn/corporate_portal_templates_v2/

Regarding upgrade, most of the customers do not 
use such sets of templates on an as-is basis. 
They takes some inspiration, reuse some portions 
of the code (generic boxes, navigation 
menus,...), etc.. but the look and feel is most 
of the time strongly modified and new additional 
templates are added (perhaps based on the simple 
or double basic and default templates). In 
conclusion, we can not override or merge such 
sets of templates with our fixes/enhancements 
with the upgrade scripts (or with the XML/import 
export module). So this is then up to each 
customers with its custom set of templates from 
time to time to verify fixes/enhancements in the 
default set of templates (for example with a tool 
such as AraxisMerge) and to "merge" useful modifications (if any).

Cheers,
Stéphane

At 22:42 11.12.2006, you wrote:

>Does anyone have any helpful insight?
>
>Daryl Gerlach wrote:
>>I have read through the Jahia 4 Template 
>>Developer Guide and I looking for the best 
>>recommended practice for creating templates for 
>>Jahia 5.0. This is a new site so I don't have 
>>any existing templates to migrate.
>>
>>It seems that if I want to use any of the 
>>existing functionality in 
>>corporate_portal_templates_v2 that I will need 
>>to copy all the files and folders from that 
>>folder(corporate_portal_templates_v2) into my 
>>site specific folder or should I add my files 
>>to the corporate_portal_templates_v2 folder? I 
>>am curious if it makes any difference with future migration scripts as well.
>
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