Re: silva document layout enhancement proposal

This sounds great, we'd be particularly interested in being able to create
our own custom layouts (7) as it's far from straightforward to do this at
the moment. We're currently struggling with overriding news object views.

J 

-----Original Message-----
From: silva-dev-bounces-IAPFreCvJWM6s/[email protected]
[mailto:silva-dev-bounces-IAPFreCvJWM6s/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Altepeter
Sent: 18 December 2007 15:21
To: silva-dev-IAPFreCvJWM6s/[email protected]
Subject: [silva-dev] silva document layout enhancement proposal

Greetings,

I ran this by Kit, and he suggested the conversation be broadened to include

all of silva-dev.  I've also created a launchpad issue so this doesn't get 
forgotten, https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/silva/+bug/177171.  Here's the 
text of the issue:

We've noticed that it is difficult to get "advanced" layouts for a
silva-based 
web pages. Sure, you can use a code source and embed documents, positioning 
with CSS and such, but a non-technical person isn't capable of such things. 
Most of the content in our CMS is generated by non-technical folks. They 
stick to what they know: one page with simple top to bottom text and rarely 
any graphics.

Here's a proposal for Silva (document) to transform to have more control
over 
document layout:

1) the web design team, while creating the identity/look/layout for the
site, 
also specifies a few "standard" page layouts (e.g. full-page, two-column, 
floating box on the right, content on top, then two column below, etc) Each 
section of the page is a separate "page section"
2) Someone with access to the ZMI adds the code for these layouts to a
service 
in the ZMI
3) When you create a Silva Document, you are prompted to choose what
document 
layout to use for the page. The default is "full-page". (note that this
isn't 
the same as choosing a different page layout/template when using 
SilvaLayout...SL is for the template, this proposal is for document layout
of 
the content of a page)
4) When you edit the document, kupu edits the first document section.
5) There is a tool in kupu that shows which section you are editing, and 
allows you to edit a different document section. I wonder if we can store
all 
the content in one Silva Document somehow, maybe with section tags.
6) There is also a facility to change your document layout to one of the
other 
pre-defined ones. This isn't exactly a "preview", as it could be the case 
that new document sections need to be created, or existing ones moved around

(e.g. news panel on right / left of main content)
7) It would be neat if there was an "advanced" layout that you could use to 
create your own custom layout.

Cheers,
Andy

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