| Re: Possible to do an all CSS theme [message #15535 is a reply to message #15530] |
Wed, 17 December 2003 22:54   |
gbjbaanb
Messages: 41
Registered: February 2003
Location: UK
Karma:
|
Member |
|
|
Ok.
1. I'm sure 10-15% of users would be affected, if you used all the CSS possible. There is a large (AFAIK) range of CSS that is not an issue.
Of course, I don't see your logs. Perhaps you see lots of people with IE5.
2. True, whilst upgrading a forum is reasonably simple (with modified templates), it is still a manual step, one that becomes more difficult the more configuration changes that have been made.
The more modifications you've made mean that making the same changes in CSS is more difficult - but one that should allow you to upgrade in future much more painlessly.
In this regard, a one-off pain of upgrading to CSS is worthwhile.. assuming these people upgrade at all considering the difficulty of migrating all their customisations.
Of course, if you've made only few changes, migrating to CSS is not a very big issue at all.
3. You're a clever chap, Ilia, and having to learn new, (better?) ways should not stop any of us from investing the time required. Otherwise, I'd still be using Pascal on 8-bit unix systems 
Once its done for a sample stylesheet, it'll be easy for the majority of changes to be made. People who are likely to want significantly different styles will either have to learn the technology (like they did with PHP?), or already know it. That csszengarden site is modified by graphic designers - not developers! If they can do it....
4. True. This, perhaps is the best argument against migration. However, it may be possible to make a start with parts of FUDforum, putting more styles into the current stylesheet as you go. Step by step, we get where we're going, after all.
If you document your progress, and what you learn on the forum, we can all help migrate some FUD templates with what you teach us... most of it will be boring, repetitive work after all.
|
|
|
|
Calendar
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
]