Re: Template per section

For you Jock, the reason why CSS skinning is more ideal than template 
skinning is because you can rapidly make skins for the different sections. 
Then you just have to use the recipe on zopelabs which I think Tonico 
linked too. That script of Alan's has been used time and time again really 
well, when all you are changing is a style sheet the cached templates load 
well and you can quickly make the skins for the different parts of your 
site.

Tom

Jock Coats wrote:

> Okay, I'll bite, as a complete newbie...
> 
> On 10 Mar 2004, at 16:27, Michael Zeltner wrote:
> 
>> Jock Coats wrote:
>>> And would like to load a completely different template for each.
>>
>> just a small note: template changes for designs/layout are *bad* ;)
> 
> Why?  If there is another way to do it I would be very pleased to know.
>   I read the various documents about the Plone site and one or two other
> places and have tinkered, for example, with CSS to make some changes.
> And I would probably be able to get some more mileage out of CSS
> changes, so that different sections of the site took on different
> colours and so on.
> 
> But what we really want are different layouts per section.  We have
> some nice photos of our members on stage performing, and they won't all
> allow content in the same places - some photos are of a person down one
> side of a photo so the content would go in a large box to the one side,
> others have an artiste in the middle of the photo and we would want to
> put menu down one side and content down the other.  Some only have
> space for content along the top or bottom of a photo.
> 
> Some of these may indeed be static introductory pages with links
> manually coded into the database backed content areas, but if I can
> make reasonable 'templates' (well that's what I am calling them - it
> looks like I really mean 'layouts') to fit onto the photos themselves,
> we would like to use them for database backed content if we can.
> 
> But if I am making life uber-complex for myself, let me know and I will
> look at different options.  But I really would like to stay with
> Zope/Plone, and I assume that as I learn a little more I'll be able to
> find workarounds.  But I'll give your suggestion a go anyway (if I can
> work out the python script bit - that'll be my first one of those!).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jock
> 
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> create different skins which have all different version of the files
>> you need on the section.
>>
>> and then switch the skin for a folder with an access rule (create a
>> python script and then an access rule that uses it) that uses
>> context.changeSkin('super_bloated_skin')
>>
>> please send us a not if it worked ;) then i'll set up a howto
>>
>> regards, michael
>>
>> PS: <sarcasm>seems like we can remove this list and point everyone to
>> my inbox</sarcasm> ;P ;)
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