Revision 2 as of 2007-05-02 13:39:55

Clear message

As a first step before adding full templating, the existing pages can be restyled to use CSS and to look more up-to-date.

Goals

  • Avoid using tables for layout.
  • Make pages look more modern.

CSS requirements

  • the bits of the template which define <head>, <body> etc. are defined in one pair of header and footer files, so they can be turned off easily;

  • the CSS files "namespace" everything by placing all Mailman content within a div, e.g. <div id="mailman">...</div> and then prefix all CSS rules with "#mailman" - this stops the Mailman styles from leaking out into the parent page elements.

Places to change

  • The HTML templates in templates/.

  • MailMan.HTMLFormatter

  • The CGI scripts in MailMan/Cgi (they use htmlformat.Table all over the place).