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[Elijah Saxon <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, address@concealed wrote:

> Are there any sites that have nice looking templates in public domain?
>
> Someone at this site put an a lot of work into their templates and I
> think our users here would appreciate a UI like this...
>
> http://lists.riseup.net/www/
>
> I don't really have the time to do something this elaborate on my own...
> Any information or ideas would be welcome.

I plan to make those downloadable soon, but it takes some work to make
them general enough to be useful for other sites. (they will be GPL, like
sympa itself, not public domain).

I created a simple meta-template system where language is removed, ie
instead of "My Subscriptions" the meta-templates hold $mysubscriptions.
Then, the meta-templates are 'rendered' to create the templates in each
language, for each domain.  There is also a configuration file per domain
which controls aspects of the rendering, like how you want the front page
displayed, the message you get after creating a list, the header and
footer, etc.

current todo list for the meta-templates:

- remove all riseup specific stuff from templates
- finish removing all language specific text and replace with symbols.
- add translations, starting with spanish (currently only in english!)
- move more stuff over to css
- convert meta-template processing code from php to perl (i know, it is
  weird to use php for this, but i am 1000 times faster coding php...)
- add configuration option to disable hacks (i added some commands
  to wwsympa to allow admins to download a simple list of member emails).

before i do that stuff, it is really too unfinished to be useful to anyone
else.

-elijah