Dream CMS
After what seems like playing with every Content Management System known to personkind, my hopes are shattered.
This site is now using Drupal. Not bad, lots of features, relatively easy to set up, relatively easy to administer (there are cryptic sections), etc. etc.
But what I want is a different front end. "Blocks" are a necessary evil to do *some* layout -- chunks of content or code that can be positioned in different areas.
But wouldn't it be great if the layout/presentation could be entirely handled via CSS? It's not that hard! Just have all the different sections of a page use either a class or a unique id (there is probably only one "header" section, same for "footer") assigned to it's own div. Couple this with a template system that consists of exactly two files -- one that is just CSS, and one that is a bare-bones PHP file that lists the API calls to display the different sections (so you can change the ordering or put wrappers around them, or override them all together).
OK. You have your task. Report back to me when done.
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ET plone home?
O wise one, do you have any thoughts on the CMS system plone? I imagine that the dependencies do not suit well your currect production environments.
Drupal is the dream CMS!
Well, almost. Basically, I used the "trip" theme (apparently from the Trip website), ripped out the embedded style declarations into a separate CSS file, then modified the basic table design into DIVs.
Works in all Moz and derivative browsers, the third column wraps in IE6, which I still have to figure out before I make it the "default" theme. Oh ya, and the minor part about how all the "admin" stuff when you are submitting content is hidden under the right column.
If you want to check it out, you can enable it by going to the "user account" section and selecting it as your theme. It's called, surprisingly enough, "notables".