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customise the look of your PyLucid installation
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PyLucid used the django template engine for building the html page. You can add templates and use them for a couple of pages. You can use different templates, because every page are associated to a template.
e.g. Page 1, 2 and 3 used template "A", pages 4,5,6 used template "B" etc.
howto customized your PyLucid installation
Nearly all output can be customized. See also webpages of PyLucid users .
There are two different templates, both uses the django template engine:
- the global template: It's for building the complete CMS page.
- the internal pages: This are small template snippets for the plugin output
Every page can have it's own style/template combination.
You can edit the look directly in the browser here:
- sub menu
- edit stylesheets
- edit templates
Or you can create customized internal pages in the file system. To hold the update effort low, you should not change the internal pages. We recommend only to change the global template and stylesheets. You can change the plugin output easy, because is has a CSS class and a unique CSS ID, look into the generated html code ;) Firebug is your friend.
template / style switcher
Since Changeset:1821 (11.02.2009) you can temporally switch the template/stylesheet for all pages. This is good for testing new style/templates without to develop in the public ;)
You find "Template/Style switcher" under "sub menu" / "edit look".
workflow
There exist not really a good workflow to customize you own page :( That is to become better in the future. Here is a way you can follow:
- Look at the existing design example pages. A good starting point is the simple elementary design
- You can copy a existing template:
- Go into the django admin panel with "sub menu" / "edit look" / "edit all templates"
- Select the template you will copy, e.g. on the name "elementary"
- Change the name of the template
- Click above on "Save as new"
- make a copy of a stylesheet, too. It's works in a similar way.
- switch temporally the template/stylesheet with the "Template/Style switcher" under "sub menu" / "edit look" (see the above)
- customize template/stylesheet in the django admin panel (Use the button "Save and continue editing")
- look parallel your cms pages, if everything is ok.
Today, there exist no good way, to switch templates/styles or mass assign style/templates to pages, discuss: http://pylucid.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=203
The easy way to do this now, is to copy&paste the template/style content from one entry to a other.