Hi all, Owen Leonard and I have been working on improvements to the organization, markup, and style of the Koha 3.0 templates. I just want to summarize our progress thusfar. 1. We've been primarily working on the Staff client as the OPAC had a fairly massive overhaul recently and we're pretty confident we've solved most of the design problems there and can easily apply those styles to the 3.0 OPAC at any time. 2. we moved all the non-.inc files out of the includes/ directory, and moved all the .tmpl files into a modules/ directory. We also created a lib/ for external libraries such as YUI, Jquery, the calendar library. CSS and JavaScript are now contained in the css/ and js/ dirs respectively. 3. We've started working on a 'style guide' for Koha templates that is a collection of recommended conventions, background on organization of the templates, and a discussion of 'patterns', 'idioms', and other UI terminology and concepts: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide 4. Started organizing the Koha pages into categories based on the 'pattern' of the page. For instance, there are two pages with a type of 'login' (the installer login page and the main auth.tmpl). Many many pages in Koha fall into the pattern of 'form + filter', and we've laid out the common elements and will be defining conventions for how the markup and style will work for the default 3.0 templates. More patterns will follow as we identify and define conventions for them. 5. We're validating pages as we go, with the goal of having all pages completely valid in 3.0 as they are in 2.2. That's about all I can think of at the moment ... we're meeting again tomorrow to continue along this track, and I'll report back here as we make progress. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS