April 13, 2007

Working With Custom CSS - Part 2

[Part 1]

There's a second way to work with custom CSS - use the template engine.

There are two steps to this:

First, create a folder. Give it a type of "Style" and a name that you find appropriate - let's say "Default", since this will be your default CSS. Set the path to be something like "css/mystyle.css", or "css/mee.nu.css" if you don't want to change your Header template just yet.

Set the index template and page template both to Style.Default.

Make sure that it's not marked private! If you mark a folder as private, only you can access its contents - which is not a good thing for your CSS files (unless you want to try out a new design, in which case it's ideal).

Save your new folder.



Now create a template. Set the type as Style and the name as Default. Make sure you set the content to "text/css", or you may have problems.

Now, just put your CSS code into the template. Make sure it's marked as active. Save it, and you're done!



The advantage of this method is that you can use template tags, including conditional tags, in generating your CSS. The downside is that because the CSS is generated dynamically, it won't be cached by the browser, so your pages will appear just a little more slowly.

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But, we can edit our CSS in the website without going through the whole upload thing.  Now I just have to take all my styles out of the HTML and move it into the stylesheet...

Posted by: McGurk at April 13, 2007 02:05 PM (Ri74D)

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