New GregCustom Theme
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:41 pm
I've just uploaded a new theme. Check it out at:
https://github.com/NorfolkGreg/GregCust ... /README.md
It's based on the one I'm using for my site, currently at:
htt ps://gregchapman.me.uk/wondercms/home
I may yet move it to
https://gregchapman.uk/index.php
where the original hand-coded version is.
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EDIT: The Wcms version is now at: https://gregchapman.uk/index.php
It's running a customised version of the GregCustom theme.
You'll now get a 404 at the original .me.uk address.
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It's my first attempt at sharing one with the Wcms community, so I regard it as ripe for improvement at the moment. That's because I'm almost totally self taught. My only computing qualification was a "Data Processing" module as part of a day release "Business Studies" course taken in the 1970s.
Here are some of my thoughts...
Is it better to do as SKY does, and included downloaded copies of the fonts used or is it acceptable/better to use links to Google fonts in the theme.php file?
You'll realise, from looking at the preview images, that all text above the menu bar is taken from fields on the "Settings > Menu" and "Settings > Current Page" screens. The "contents" field certainly isn't meant to be as short as you have to make them to be used in the header. While I would much prefer to use the <?= $Wcms->block('subside') ?> structure to act as the header block, until Wcms' index.php file is reworked that would leave it with extremely confusing content, but you'll have seen I've got a Wish List post discussing that.
You'll also see from that wish list that I also haven't found a satisfactory way to handle menus that are at sub-page level. Hover menus are ok at the top level but once dropdown are involved, they become very messy. Is that just me and my lack of properly programmer training? Is there any current theme which has a touch-screen friendly menu system once sub-pages are added?
https://github.com/NorfolkGreg/GregCust ... /README.md
It's based on the one I'm using for my site, currently at:
htt ps://gregchapman.me.uk/wondercms/home
I may yet move it to
https://gregchapman.uk/index.php
where the original hand-coded version is.
======================
EDIT: The Wcms version is now at: https://gregchapman.uk/index.php
It's running a customised version of the GregCustom theme.
You'll now get a 404 at the original .me.uk address.
======================
It's my first attempt at sharing one with the Wcms community, so I regard it as ripe for improvement at the moment. That's because I'm almost totally self taught. My only computing qualification was a "Data Processing" module as part of a day release "Business Studies" course taken in the 1970s.
Here are some of my thoughts...
Is it better to do as SKY does, and included downloaded copies of the fonts used or is it acceptable/better to use links to Google fonts in the theme.php file?
You'll realise, from looking at the preview images, that all text above the menu bar is taken from fields on the "Settings > Menu" and "Settings > Current Page" screens. The "contents" field certainly isn't meant to be as short as you have to make them to be used in the header. While I would much prefer to use the <?= $Wcms->block('subside') ?> structure to act as the header block, until Wcms' index.php file is reworked that would leave it with extremely confusing content, but you'll have seen I've got a Wish List post discussing that.
You'll also see from that wish list that I also haven't found a satisfactory way to handle menus that are at sub-page level. Hover menus are ok at the top level but once dropdown are involved, they become very messy. Is that just me and my lack of properly programmer training? Is there any current theme which has a touch-screen friendly menu system once sub-pages are added?