Back again for the first time!

The legend lives on. A Joomla! 1.6 incarnation of Rhuk's ubiquitous SolarFlare II template coming soon to a site near you! This is a "tableless" version optimized for display in 1024px windows. Also gone are legacy styles for the menus...all will be xhtml with h3 and list (ul li) construction...much better for those who lust after SEO niceness.

Goals:

trivial or no errors when scanned by W3C xhtml and css validators
make sure display is consistent for Firefox, IE7/8, Chrome...other browsers use at their own risk!
remain true to original rhuk design as possible
ignore those who think I'm a bit crazy for doing this!

You can witness the mess in progress here. And remember that the key word here is MESS!

Tags: Joomla, SolarFlare-II, template

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Thambi Yousuf on June 2, 2010 at 7:47pm

pray should have K2 support,

Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on June 3, 2010 at 6:51am

@harryb - There is a Joomla! wiki page for 1.6 CSS classes/ids that does not look as complete as yours.

@thambi - k2 and solarflare would rock! old and new!

Permalink Reply by Lawrence Meckan on June 3, 2010 at 8:57am

Much props for your work, Harry.

The one thing I'm still scratching my head about is the whole SEO niceness. Sure, 1.6 looks better than 1.5 and 1.0 out of the gates with some of its revised classes and identifiers in your generated list, but with Google now looking for Rich Snippets in displaying SEO results, I'm thinking we need to rise to the challenge a lot more.

I know Andy Clarke of "For a Beautiful Web" fame has been involved in creating some HTML5/CSS3/microformat Frankensteins of late, so if the leaders in this industry are pushing the envelope that far, how quickly can we catch up?

Permalink Reply by HarryB on June 5, 2010 at 6:36am

Latest News...

The SolarFlare II for Joomla 1.6 site has become an "unofficial" host for a work in progress documentation of Joomla! 1.6 core CSS classes and IDs. Don't ask why it's there rather than in the Joomla! documentation wiki...most probably won't like my answer!

The plan is show the context in which the classes/ids are used rather than just producing a summary list of the classes/ids.

A sample of this approach is shown in the featured article on the front page of the site. Make sure you follow all the links in the article on the front page!

Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on June 5, 2010 at 9:54am

I'm following! Thanks for your work on this. Much appreciated!

HarryB said:

Latest News...

The SolarFlare II for Joomla 1.6 site has become an "unofficial" host for a work in progress documentation of Joomla! 1.6 core CSS classes and IDs. Don't ask why it's there rather than in the Joomla! documentation wiki...most probably won't like my answer!

The plan is show the context in which the classes/ids are used rather than just producing a summary list of the classes/ids.

A sample of this approach is shown in the featured article on the front page of the site. Make sure you follow all the links in the article on the front page!

Permalink Reply by HarryB on June 6, 2010 at 2:00pm

Many scoff at Drupal because it does not include a WYSIWYG editor in its core distribution. I'm not one since I deal with html, css, javascript and PHP stuff 99.9999% of the time.

However, the Drupal core equivalent of Joomla's "Editor - None" configuration at least has, among other things, one feature that makes my life easier... the option to allow insertion of PHP code in Drupal's equivalent of articles and custom blocks, given one has the right permissions.

I realize that Joomla! has many available plugins that provide this capability and that's great...for Joomla 1.5 users! And for my purposes at this point in time, upgrading one of these existing plugins, or even building a shiny new one for 1.6 , is akin to taking a sledgehammer to a gnat!

Permalink Reply by HarryB on June 8, 2010 at 1:20pm

Update, 8 June 2010...

New, improved list of classes and examples for menu item types in Article, Contact and News Feed Views. Follow the links at http://rc.hrpr.com/j16/ to see this stuff.

Permalink Reply by HarryB on July 3, 2010 at 11:26am

Updated today to include two tables - one for core classes associated with components and one for core classes associated with modules.

http://rc.hrpr.com/j16/

Tomorrow - Happy Birthday USA!

Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on July 3, 2010 at 8:49pm

Thanks HarryB - will be looking at reusing this in the Wiki, as per your permission on the Tracker. This is much appreciated!

Happy 4th of July!

HarryB said:

Updated today to include two tables - one for core classes associated with components and one for core classes associated with modules.
http://rc.hrpr.com/j16/
Tomorrow - Happy Birthday USA!

Permalink Reply by HarryB on September 7, 2010 at 4:02pm

Word is that patches to make class and id naming conventions more consistent will go into 1.6 shortly. So if anybody has been using my lists, beware that they will soon be a bit outdated.

Permalink Reply by HarryB on January 16, 2011 at 6:24am

SOH

Bye, Bye

STX

This stuff is no longer available at rc.hrpr.com/j16. I t has been moved to the "Official" Joomla Documentation Site.

ETX

EOT

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