customise the look of your PyLucid installation

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 and style combination, because every PageTree entry are associated to a design:
e.g. PageTree 1, 2 and 3 used Design "A", pages 4,5,6 used Design "B" etc.

A Design is a combination of template, Headfiles (stylesheet files) and a color scheme:

• PageTree
  • Design
    • Template
    • Headfiles
    • Colorscheme

Nearly all output can be customized. See also Webpages who use PyLucid.

There are two different templates, both uses the django template engine:

• the global template: It's for building the complete CMS page.
• the plugin templates: This are small template snippets for the plugin output

Every PageTree can have it's own Design.

↑ clone a Design  #

To get a copy of existing Templates/Styles etc. use the clone design feature:

• PyLucid admin menu -> edit look -> clone design

This clone a existing page design with all associated components.

↑ customized Design  #

You can edit Styles/Templates directly in the browser.

The fastest way is to use the sub menu points under, from the normal page view:

• edit page -> edit current look -> ...

↑ design switcher  #

Since 65bda3f you can temporally switch the design for all pages.
This is good for testing new style/templates without to develop in the public ;)

You find "Template/Style switcher" under:

• PyLucid admin menu -> edit look -> switch design

↑ workflow  #

To start a new customise design, you can do this in this way:

• Clone a existing page design with all associated components (Styles, templates etc.)
• Edit Styles/Templates in the Django admin site
• "Preview" result by temporary switch the design

And the bad news:
Today, there exist no good way, to switch templates/styles or mass assign style/templates to pages, discuss: http://forum.pylucid.org/viewtopic.php?t=203
The easy way to do this now, is to change the existing design and assign the other template/colorscheme to it.

↑ design <-> template  #

The relationship between the design and the template would be set by the path to the design as a string.

If you will rename a template, you must do this in two steps:

• rename the template path
• change the path in design entry, too.

↑ sub pages  #

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