JimmyCrackedCorn
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| Posted: 11/07/2007, 10:00 PM |
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I was wondering if Yes offers any additional styles or if there is any documentation on how to create them myself?
It looks like I can copy an existing style folder, give it a new name, and then edit the XML file, the CSS files and the images. But some documentation and/or examples would really be nice!
Another challenge appears to be how to get a style I create to properly integrate with the Style Builder. If I open an existing style in the style builder and make color changes that also change the images (buttons), when I save that new style its folder contains images of the new color. Now how did that happen? Did the style builder simply copy some images from another style or did it re-color the images that came with the style I started with?
And there may be other issues I have not encountered yet. If anyone has any tips, samples, documentation, etc. it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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joejac
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| Posted: 11/08/2007, 3:46 AM |
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Hello Jimmy,
1.- I created my own style, placed everything in mystyle folder with my own style file and in the head section of each CCS3 page I placed:
<link href="Styles/mystyle/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
If you like simple things you can have all your images in your images folder and place your style at the same level of the other CCS3 files and link to the file like this:
<link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
2.- I do not know how to integrate a style with the Style Builder, I think this builder is only to be used for style creation inside CCS3 project. A more experienced user can help you better.
Regards
joejac
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JimmyCrackedCorn
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| Posted: 11/08/2007, 6:55 AM |
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thanks joejac. what I'm really interested in is figuring out how I can add new style sets into CCS that my developers can then use. and if they can also use Style Builder on these that would be great too!
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E43509
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| Posted: 11/08/2007, 7:00 AM |
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Not sure if I fully understand what you are trying to do,
But I've gone into CCS tools/styles
duplicated a style and then made it my own (changed colors, ...)
Then in c:\progam files\codechargestudio3\components\styles I found my style folder and was able to copy it to another machine to use it in CCS there.
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JimmyCrackedCorn
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| Posted: 11/08/2007, 7:41 AM |
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Quote E43509:
Not sure if I fully understand what you are trying to do,
the styles included with CCS are nice but are all very similar in their design. my company has web designers who specialize in just the design of sites and user interfaces. I want to have my designers create an entirely new set of styles that we can then install with CCS for our developers to use.
I have done what you mentioned...copy a style and then change it a little. but we want to radically change the styles! Thanks for your inputs.
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quasimidi
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| Posted: 11/09/2007, 1:15 PM |
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Generate your project, then fire up dreamweaver and redesign your site. The only thing you must take care of: the codecharge comments, blocks, and templates.
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JimmyCrackedCorn
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| Posted: 11/09/2007, 1:50 PM |
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Quote quasimidi:
Generate your project, then fire up dreamweaver and redesign your site. The only thing you must take care of: the codecharge comments, blocks, and templates.
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I know we can redesign what CCS creates; but that's not what we are trying to do! :) We are trying to create additional styles for CCS.
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marcel
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| Posted: 11/09/2007, 3:18 PM |
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Indeed it would be nice to do all the design in CodeCharge. I want to build XHTML/508 sites and that is in itself very frustrating (differences in handling the boxmodel between IE and Firefox, etc) so you don’t want more complications.
What I do like from the Stylebuilder is making the colorschema and some nice navigationbuttons. On the other hand I find the headers from the grids often to pronounced and should like a more light design. Further more I should like the use of more div-blocks. Most ccs2 sites have a wrapper or total div in which you can centre the site and can use a different background.
In the header you want the header itself, a statusrow (login, logout, person/function logged in) and buttons for changing language. Then there is a dropdown menu (CCTools or CC4-menu).
After the header something like the content, where the grids and record find their place.
I use a headerblock with includes of all this different functions. Then the content and a footer.
I place my own divs and classes in an extra.css, which I import - @import url(extra.css) – in the top of the generated styles from CC. This way I can make changes with the stylebuilder and after changes I only have to copy the importtext again. Not optimal, but acceptable.
I use Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Stylemaster and some other tools but none give me full control over design. Making stylesheets in CC is even not so bad  but more support for full template design is wanted.
Who has examples of nice designs made in CodeCharge?
Marcel
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