I'm developing a set of 7 blogs for my company within umbraco. Everything has gone very well thus far (largely due to the overwhelming support of the umbraco community) but the final issue I am running into is installing the custom themes for each blog. They are all the same but use different style sheets. i don't know how to point them at the style sheets. I would just upload the themes but I know I'm not legally allowed to with the usage contract of some of the artwork so they need to be installed from local packages and I can't find a way to do this.
Sorry for the delayed response. Yes. Every one of those files has been changed. Maybe just creating new templates is the way to go? As of right now, I have a conditional set up using XSLT that is set to pick the style-sheet based on the section it is in.
Andrew, I think you are on the right track by creating a new BlogMaster, Blog, Blogpost and/or Blogpost Textpage. One thing I am doing is changing the skin datatype to a dropdown list. This keeps the control of the blog's skin in the same place.
Yes, I did exactly what Donald suggests. On the top level of the blog, I have a dropdownlist property filled with the filenames of the stylesheets (like blue.css, green.css, red.css, etc).
In my template I just insert an xslt macro that inserts the stylesheetname and inserts it into the <head> section.
This is my xslt, I see that I can already improve it by removing the for-each loop, but anyway..:
Installing Local Themes
Hey All,
I'm developing a set of 7 blogs for my company within umbraco. Everything has gone very well thus far (largely due to the overwhelming support of the umbraco community) but the final issue I am running into is installing the custom themes for each blog. They are all the same but use different style sheets. i don't know how to point them at the style sheets. I would just upload the themes but I know I'm not legally allowed to with the usage contract of some of the artwork so they need to be installed from local packages and I can't find a way to do this.
Any ideas?
Andrew,
Are you changing the structure of the blog? (editing BlogMaster, Blog, Blogpost and/or Blogpost Textpage)
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Donald
Sorry for the delayed response. Yes. Every one of those files has been changed. Maybe just creating new templates is the way to go? As of right now, I have a conditional set up using XSLT that is set to pick the style-sheet based on the section it is in.
Andrew, I think you are on the right track by creating a new BlogMaster, Blog, Blogpost and/or Blogpost Textpage. One thing I am doing is changing the skin datatype to a dropdown list. This keeps the control of the blog's skin in the same place.
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Donald
Yes, I did exactly what Donald suggests. On the top level of the blog, I have a dropdownlist property filled with the filenames of the stylesheets (like blue.css, green.css, red.css, etc).
In my template I just insert an xslt macro that inserts the stylesheetname and inserts it into the <head> section.
This is my xslt, I see that I can already improve it by removing the for-each loop, but anyway..:
<xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node/data[@alias='cssStylesheet']"> <xsl:if test=". != ''"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:text>/css/</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:attribute> </link> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template>is working on a reply...
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