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Intro
There has been interest in revisiting default themes and skins in uPortal. The concerns range from inflexible design to access for the impaired. This page has been added to promote collaboration on efforts to design more flexible themes/skins which may be adopted as new defaults for uPortal. One desirable outcome of these efforts would be easy adoption of skins developed by others so that implementations might have a repository of base skins to choose from thereby fulfilling the needs of the all individuals within their respective communities.
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Contributors/Interested Parties
- ~jayshao Jason Jason (Rutgers University)
- Mark Sincock (Cornell)
- ~ymorita Former user (Deleted) (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center)
- ~bcollierjones B. Collier Jones (Virginia Tech)
- ~tcarroll@uiuc.edu tim carroll (University of Illinois)
Resources
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- Initial XHTML, CSS selecter naming conventions (id & classname)
- Page structure including elements and logical layout
- Conventions for id/class names (e.g. channels/portlets, controls, headings)
- Support new features such as page refreshes linking to channel anchors
- Should follow JSR-168/WSRP Conventions as closely as possible
- Sample/default CSS skin
- Initial Layout for SLM & DLM based Layouts
- Serve as a model for future skins/institutional customization
- Provide basic styles & layout for screen, print & mobile.
- Logical breakup for layout/styles/print/etc.
- Place to experiment with CSS skin structure & directory layout
- perhaps explore how to have skins/layouts with shared common elements
Timeline (updated 4/19/06)
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