Re: bigger sites, displaying content

"Tomislav Grabic" <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Apr 2003 19:43:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.xaraya.ui
Organization Xaraya News Server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
mikespub wrote:
> In article <b6rcjf$hf1$1-FogMEOs31dotat4ziPANHlKoq+OfwspIAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>, "Tomislav
> Grabic" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Would for example a feature that enables admins to choose i.e. a
>> preset "look or display template" (not theme) be useful? Right now,
>> every page looks alike as all pages display the same array /
>> combination of blocks.
>> Let´s say, certain pages don´t need any other block except the main
>> menu i.e., others need more blocks... creating display templates
that
>> decide which blocks, parts of the default are shown and which are
>> not, and being able to assign individual pages to a group of those,
>> what do you think?
[...]
>>
> You can have separate "page templates" for each module right now,
> allowing you to have different block combinations or layout per
module
> (within the same theme).

that´s a good start :-)


> In the articles module, you can also have separate "page templates"
> for each publication type.

o.k., in that case one can have identical publication types with
different page templates, which solves the problem


> Not that Xaraya 1.0 is perfect in every way of course :)

...sophisticated software for ambitious users (how about this as a
slogan for Xaraya? ;-) )


> For instance,
> you can't really navigate by category across your site (except within
> e.g. articles), and there are no category-dependent templates either.
> Gives us something to experiment with for later versions... :-)

I´m patient, keep up the good work...
best regards,

Tomi