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["Pete Deremer" <sportman1280@xxxxxxxxx>]

Basically, web services controls your theme without giving you any
creative access to it

I am using slate for both SGA and Club Tennis.  I used to think it gave no
room either... however, you can completely override the orginial css, with
your own.  I'll show you on monday.  Its tendious, cuz you have to follow
their naming system :(, however, you can change how it looks :)

Pete


On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Andrew Keith Butcher
<abutcher@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Gentleman,
>
> I visited with the slate people at web services yesterday.  After
> learning about how it works internally, I'm not so sure we'd want to
> use it, but I'm going ahead with the beaurocratics of it anyway.
> Basically, web services controls your theme without giving you any
> creative access to it.  You have to send in a request to have a
> different theme than the two issued options, which aren't that bad --
> I guess.  Their people magic themes up for every web site they
> control -- which seems like way too much work and I didn't realize
> they had people doing that all of the time.  So, we could design a
> theme and give it to them hoping that they would put it in place with
> the slate content readers if we would like.
>
> Another thing I was upset with was that the project is not open source
> yet, due to the fact that they lost their lead dev in March and won't
> be proceeding with development until they get a replacement. Which
> puts a huge draw on open sourcing the project.  I did although inform
> them that we were interested in helping package the software if they
> ever got to that point.
>
> On the positive side, I was pleased with how easy it is to pop in and
> make updates on their sites and their UI looks really clean.  And
> after I'm given admin, I can give everyone publishing rights so we can
> get mass updates all around.  All of that out of the way, we should
> have a slate controlled WVU page within' one week if we choose to
> capitalize on it.  Any interest in designing a theme should be voiced
> soon.
>
> Peace,
> Hoss
>
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