contao/repository — Issue #75: Add Cascading Style Sheets to Extension Repository
Author: importer
Created: 2011-11-30 12:44:00+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature

(Copy/Pasted from http://www.contao-community.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2746)

As we all know, modules are usually made bare-bone without much touching up done to it.

Why not create another section/category to upload/download stylesheets for FE/BE modules?

Since many of the modules are plain, this will give the community a chance to share their stylistic ways of making these modules look good. I figure if we do it this way, devs can focus solely on creating the module to function the way its supposed to, and others who like to make things look good, can focus on the styling. Combine the two and you got a winner. And we keep the styles and modules separated so there aren't 100+ instances of the same module with a different color.

So if a dev wanted to, they could make the core functionality of the module, and throw it out there with no styling (or minimal), and if they had some styling done, slap it into a separate stylesheet and upload that with it.

The new section can be searched via module name, and it will have thumbnails/gallery of screenshots of how it looks with its corresponding style attached. And in the extension repository when you go to look up the module, if the developer of the module created a basic style for it, the stylesheet will be linked on the same page.

Then the CSS freaks will have a field day with naked modules, and the people that want ready-to-go modules have some options to sort through.

Maybe also update Contao to better organize stylesheets for this purpose.

EDIT:
Include an upload directory in the backend for easy stylesheet integration for end-users.

--- _Originally created by mechaflash on February 16th, 2011, at 07:36pm (ID 2875)_