Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Sheldon Rampton sheldon.rampton@verizon.net): I'd like to do some tinkering with the Wikipedia skins and maybe come up with a couple of different layouts, but the HTML seems to be scattered across several different PHP files. Is there a recommended easy way to do this (ideally in a WYSIWYG HTML editor like Dreamweaver)?
You can certainly design and lay out Wikipedia pages using any tool you like, and just point the developers to them when you're done with a suggestion to implement you design. If it aligns with our goals (that is, it's conformant HTML, works across browsers and OSs, is not a performance penalty, etc.), then we're like to do it.
It would be nice if designers could simply upload an HTML template & a CSS file. (or CSS files plural -- I've discovered alternate stylesheets. see devedge.netscape.com with Mozilla / Opera to see!)
The system that was set up on the test server of having the combined HTML & CSS in a wiki pages is unfeasible. when designing by hand, one tends to refresh the browser every minute or so. having to save the wiki page & wait for a reload would really drag things out; plus combining CSS & HTML in a single document means I lost 1/2 of the syntax highlighitng in TextPad :(