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RE: [phoenix-dev] Notes on using Phoenix
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Another item that we've discussed previously is how to best exploit tagging.
Bjorn, could I please ask you to own that topic?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denis Roy
> Sent: October 14, 2005 10:19 AM
> To: For developers on the new Eclipse.org website project.
> Subject: [phoenix-dev] Notes on using Phoenix
>
> I've been using Phoenix to start the new home page and the
> downloads pages (http://phoenix.eclipse.org/ and
> http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/ respectively). Here are some
> observations:
>
> 1. There's a bug (Ian discovered this) in the "phoenix engine":
> subdirectories of a top-level directory (such as
> /org/howtojoin) need to have the _projectCommon.php file. Two
> solutions come to mind - the "phoenix engine" can find it
> itself, or each directory could be considered a "project"
> with its own common values, such as a skin and nav items. We
> can discccuss this monday.
>
> 2. PHP makes things flexible. I moved the downloads page,
> which is mostly dynamic and database-driven, with little effort.
>
> 3. It takes a while to eliminate all the tables, tr, td and
> font tags to move it all in the DIV, h1, h2 and ul/li tags,
> but the end result is a clean page.
>
> 4. We need a visual template of what tags and styles are
> available, as well as names for the page components
> (midcolumn, homeitem, etc). Shauna is working on this.
>
> 5. We need a document that outlines the installation of the
> Eclipse plugins we need (PHPEclipse, XAMPP, etc) to get the
> preview working.
>
> 6. Ian and I agreed that "Project Links" should be a common
> element that we can include on any page. I'll incorporate
> this into the skin, and you'll be able to add the whole
> section in any page with one line of code.
>
> 7. I agree with the comments on bug 111001 that there is a
> bit too much purple, and I blame it on the left nav bar. I
> vote that we change the color, make it lighter, or make it
> look like Miasma:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=25710
>
> 8. Mike had suggested we should also have Miasma skinned into
> XHTML/CSS.
> I agree, it's a nice look and think some projects would
> like to use it. We should also let the community know that
> they can keep submitting design templates - we could then
> skin the ones the community like best and offer them to projects.
>
> 9. I need to put the "Phoenix engine" (the template.php,
> _projectCommon.php, and the eclipse.org-common/ directory) in
> our CVS code repository for everyone to see it.
>
>
> Denis
>
>
>
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