RE: [Myexperiment-discuss] Skinning myExperiment

[Don Cruickshank]

Hi,

All of the configuration options for a "skin" are in stored in a format that 
allows the system to easily read/write and reset.  This is in anticipation of a 
web page to allow end users to configure how each customised view of 
myExperiment behaves.

The two particular template files (the page template and the associated CSS 
file for it) are HTML and CSS respectively, though it will require some form of 
whitelisting as they contain Rails' template language (ERB).  I'd be happy to 
let people we know and trust to edit these.
 
Here's a list of things that can be configured for each customised site:

        * The site name
        * The site logo
        * The page template (which is the "skin")
        * The style template (which is the CSS for the skin)
        * The base URI (e.g. http://www.myexperiment.org/ or 
http://elico.myexperiment.org/)
        * The main tabs that appear 
        * What appears in the "new" menu
        * The search categories  (so that some categories won't appear in the 
search results)
        * The email addresses used for email notifications and messages
        * Which stats appear on the home page

Being able to specify what can appear on the news feed would fit in well with 
the other options here.

Regards,
Don.


-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Robert Stevens
Sent: 14 January 2011 10:25
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Myexperiment-discuss] Skinning myExperiment

All
Some time ago, Don (I think) added a mechanism to skin a myExperiment
page(s) accorindg to some look or feel. we used the e-LICO project's group as 
an example.

How do we change a look and feel? Also, how does the look and feel skinning 
mechanism work?

Thanks

robert.


Robert Stevens
Reader in BioHealth Informatics
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

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http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr

KBO 


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