[MTOS-dev] proposal: page layout blog setting and accompanying template tags.

[Bud Gibson]

What does this menu do exactly?  Does it set the setting used by
stylecatcher?  In that case, it makes sense as a UI element.

BTW, my complaint with the templates is not so much that they're scary but
that they are too hard to figure out.  They're too unlike web pages.

On Jan 24, 2008 8:12 PM, Timothy Appnel <tim at appnel.com> wrote:

> For those of you not on the ProNet list there has been a very
> "spirited" discussion about the improved template set capabilities in
> MT 4.1 and the default template set that ships with the software.
>
> The template sets are geared towards "pros" so they are too difficult
> and scary and intimidating for those who are new to MT.
>
> It would seem that consensus is that MT should ship with a simple
> "flattened" template set that users that users who want to start
> customize their templates can learn from. Those who need something
> more (presumably advanced) can grab a template set plugin.
>
> Assuming that is where things are going for a moment, I started
> looking at how StyleCatcher works and it occurred to me that MT has
> different default layout types -- 3-column wide-thin-thin, 3-column
> thin-thin-wide and so on. How does MT decide which layout to use?
> There is a metadata column called page_layout; however, it seems that
> only the StyleCatcher plugin uses it. From what I can tell, if someone
> is not using StyleCatcher, but are using the default templates they
> are forced to insert that attribute into the templates by hand.
>
> In light of this and the conversation on Pronet, I have a small
> proposal to make.
>
> Add a pulldown menu to one of the blog properties screens
> (Publishing?) in addition to mt:blogpagelayout and mt:ifblogpagelayout
> template tags to the MT core set. This setting/property should be
> considered advisory, meaning templates designs can ignore it if it
> makes sense to the
> developer. (Ignoring this as a template set developer probably wouldn't.)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> <tim/>
>
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