Re: Template per section

Hi Jock,

 > Tom, and others, thanks for your excellent advice.  What if I 
doreally > want a completely 'different' look to the three column type 
layout?

As others have mentioned in this thread, you can do much of this using 
CSS. Then you could simply have a different ploneCustom.css for each 
skin that you want to use, and as you navigate the site and click on the 
various folders (music, poetry, information, etc.), the skin would 
change and the new stylesheet would be loaded.

 > When I started with PostNuke, I downloaded lots of skins to give me
 > something to compare with and to see what happens if I change this or
 > that.  I'm a little bit lost without that in Plone.

Yes, I am a Postnuke-refuge as well, and it has taken a bit getting used 
to how things are done in Plone. But I like the fact that the entire 
site can be changed with very small modifications to the ploneCustom.css 
file. That makes maintenance much easier in the long run.

I hope that there is soon a "skin repository" where people can upload 
skins that they've made and where non-CSS gurus like us can download 
them to try out various "looks" and learn from each others' CSS tricks.

 > Still waiting for that 'Eureka' moment...:-)

Well, I don't know if it's a Eureka moment, but I had great success with 
  Alan Runyan's example from the Emerging website as described in this 
presentation: http://plone.org/Members/runyaga/presentations/OSCOM/workshop/

Look at the section called "Binding skin on traversal". This will give 
you the various skins/layouts for each folder as you describe below.

If you get stuck, let me know and I can make it into a more complete 
howto. I think there is also a recipe on Zopelabs that is very similar 
to this example.

Nate

Jock Coats wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My name is Jock Coats and i am working on Zope Plone for an artists
> community (see Plone4Artists story on the Plone website).  Like the recent
> poster on CSS per page, I am very new to Zope and Plone and this is
> probably a pretty basic question as well, but I hope it is doable!
> 
> I'd like to have different 'sections' if you like on my site - we'll be
> hosting musicians, poets, dramatists and so on, and would like to have a
> different layout per 'section'.  We can probably make sure each section
> has a common url identifier perhaps thus:
> 
> http://dev.catweazleclub.org/music
> http://dev.catweazleclub.org/poetry
> http://dev.catweazleclub.org/information
> 
> and so on.
> 
> And would like to load a completely different template for each.
> 
> Is such a thing possible?  I'm guessing that it has something to do with
> 'acquisition' in the skinning system, but cannot seem to see how or where
> I would do it.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jock Coats
> OXFORD, UK.
> 
> 
> 
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