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[Justin C Calvarese]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Tue, 02 May 2006 22:42:57 -0500, Justin C Calvarese wrote:
> 
>> nick wrote:
>>> I would have gladly provided a new layout(the generic tabs on the top,
>>> couple of gradients thing).
>>> The problem is that wiki4d generates (I assume it hasn't changed since I
>>> last looked) code for a website from the 1980s or 1990s. It's not using
>>> divs, spans, etc.
>>>
>>> I know nothing of the underlying technology behind wiki4d.
>> It's pretty simple, but it should be powerful enough.
>>
>> I just changed the template for the whole site to the template that I 
>> had been trying out with the DocComments pages.
>>
>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?FrontPage
>>
>> Does the new template look any better? I can change it back if you don't 
>> think it's an improvement.
>>
>> We can make further changes as well. The template system seems to be 
>> pretty flexible. I think my problem is a lack of imagination.
> 
> Yes it is better. How can 'we' help you further improve the templates?
> By that I mean, what capabilities are there in the template system? How
> does it work? etc ...

I kind of figured out how it worked by trial-and-error, so I don't know 
how much I can teach you, but I tried to explain some of it in this post:

http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/37387

I guess the one sentence summary is that the "Context" page is where the 
configurations are stored (such as setting a template page). And looking 
at one template can explain how to create another template.

I can try to explain more later, but most of what I know is already in 
the aforementioned post.

-- 
jcc7