Bill Herndon 0 Report post Posted March 22 I've just put up the first major update to my template NearDawn in about 5 years. Changes I've made include: The "style" is more in line with contemporary publishing standards, having larger fonts, more space between elements, and less clutter. I finally did away with the right-side TNG pull-down menus in favor of a footer block that supports as many of the less used menu items as you want. (I never liked those menus anyway.) The CSS is greatly simplified, and will become the core of a family of templates using similar layouts and blocking. There is no longer any difference between the version I publish for Lindell-Herndon Genealogy and the version I make available for download. So...less maintenance. NearDawnTwo is compatible with the Template Manager mod. The template no longer depends on a mod to deal with certain TNG'isms that I just never could get around without a code change. (Although I may still have a mod for the final version to do language file installation.) For the time being, I'm just soliciting comments from the community on how I can improve the template and fixing a few lingering issues with the CSS. But in about 3 weeks I'll publish NearDawnTwo and NearDarkTwo for download and get to work on some more advanced features. Things I'm considering: Picture shows for the header. A 'feature scroll' for the bottom of the content section. An automated method for generating new pages that have the 'look and feel' of the home page. A template builder. Something like Uncode for TNG. (This is a 'holy grail' project.) Comments are very welcome. -- Bill Herndon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
