Theming websites effortlessly with Deliverance (CMSExpo 2010)

Deliverance Theming websites effortlessly Nate Aune (@natea) www.jazkarta.com CMSExpo 2010 - Chicago

There are obstacles, regardless of platform

Example Apply a design to a WordPress site

HTML is forgiving <h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><? php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>

Application code is not <h1><a href="<?php echo et_option('home'); ?>/"><? php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>

Are you a f ’ender or a b’ender?

The current compromise People competent at both People that People that have have design skills coding skills

The Deliverance Way Web Web Designers Developers People that know CSS

Secret Sauce

Where does Deliverance sit in the stack? Apache Deliverance

Deliverance is a tool for moving content into a theme using CSS selectors and a few rules. The only requirements is that the theme and content source supply HTML. A typical conﬁguration consists of a static HTML ﬁle as the theme resource and an application as the content provider.

The rules replace append prepend drop

Content #content Theme #page .ﬂoatRight

#content

#header h1 #page .leftColumn #page .ﬂoatRight

Talk is cheap

#content

#header h1 #page .leftColumn #page .ﬂoatRight

Proxy rule <proxy path="/blog" class="blogtheme" > <response rewrite-links="1" /> <dest href="http://blog.localhost" /> </proxy>

Let’s get to work

Special pages

Beneﬁts • Use any design with any CMS, without touching either one. • Designer and developer can work in parallel without stepping on each others toes. • Designer doesn’t need to know anything about the CMS. Can use their design as is. Less custom theme code to maintain. • Theme multiple applications using a single theme. Makes changes in only one place.

Credits • Aaron VanDerlip for the slides • Ian Bicking for making Deliverance Photo credits • http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/21896484@N02/2726201320 • http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/disownedlight/3268752278/sizes/l/

Find out more • http://deliveranceproject.org/ • http://blog.jazkarta.com

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Theming websites effortlessly with Deliverance (CMSExpo 2010)

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