Feed2JS Style Tools: Bonsai CSS Zen Garden?. I have just twiddled some new tools to help users of Feed2JS to create their customized styles for output created by this service/script. In a total and polite rip off of the css Zen Garden site,
I am hoping some designers out there might mess around with the new
style tools and submit some new ones to add to our collection.
This was initiated by a number of emails from people asking basic
questions like "I love what this does, but how do I get rid of the
bullets on the listed items?" and "I cannot get any formatting to show
up". There are major gaps in understanding where to put the style
declarations, no surprise, since very few people end up coding style
sheets- most are created form them by various web authoring
applications. IN this case, you need a wee bit more knowledge, not
much, just to know where to put things.
The first thing to do was to provide some more instructions
on the two ways of using CSS with the feed- you must either embed the
CSS within the file containing the Feed2JS Javascript OR link it to a
local CSS file (better for multiple pages on the same site that use
feeds). This also includes a quick sketched diagram to show what
classes are defined by the output.
But the next phase was modifying the CSS style preview tool
so that once you selected from the puny list of styles I tossed
together, you can then edit the CSS right in the output page, and then
preview your modified changes, allowing some iterative design flow (or
how I do things- keep pounding that damn nail until it goes in the
wood). Once you have something pretty enough to share, a simple form
allows you to send them to us, and then we can add it to our own mini
bonsai css garden.
So now that there are some 16,000 cached feeds running from our site, I am hoping a few (hundred? ten? one) of the people out there using it might contribute some new styles. [cogdogblog]
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