Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Sheldon
Rampton <sheldon.rampton(a)verizon.net>)t>):
I'd like to do some tinkering with the Wikipedia skins and maybe come
up with a couple of different layouts, but the HTML seems to be
scattered across several different PHP files. Is there a recommended
easy way to do this (ideally in a WYSIWYG HTML editor like
Dreamweaver)?
You can certainly design and lay out Wikipedia pages using any tool
you like, and just point the developers to them when you're done
with a suggestion to implement you design. If it aligns with our
goals (that is, it's conformant HTML, works across browsers and OSs,
is not a performance penalty, etc.), then we're like to do it.
It would be nice if designers could simply upload an HTML template & a
CSS file.
(or CSS files plural -- I've discovered alternate stylesheets. see
devedge.netscape.com with Mozilla / Opera to see!)
The system that was set up on the test server of having the combined
HTML & CSS in a wiki pages is unfeasible. when designing by hand, one
tends to refresh the browser every minute or so. having to save the wiki
page & wait for a reload would really drag things out; plus combining
CSS & HTML in a single document means I lost 1/2 of the syntax
highlighitng in TextPad :(