Below is the text version of our ‘How To Modify Indexhibit’ screencast. Also, the pdf version is available here.
How to Modify Indexhibit w/CSS:
This tutorial will show you how to modify your Indexhibit website by creating a new theme and making some simple changes to the CSS. We will focus on three major areas:
How to create the files necessary for your own Indexhibit theme
Using Firebug to examine web pages
Styling your theme by modifying an existing CSS stylesheet
Although its not 100% complete, its pretty darn close! As you probably notice, something crazy came over me and I made some last minute design changes.
There are a few technical things left to work on, but other than that i think its ready to be filled with my work. Im pretty excited about it! Thanks for everyone’s help throughout the process.
I have finished by indexhibit theme, now styled and commented. I still think there can be some inprovements with the commenting, but i guess thats the beauty of opensource.
Here is my indexhibit tutorial. (take 24 ) I focused on the very basics. The quality is not as good as I had hoped. Any suggesitons how to make it better.
I think I also want to take another one on ” how to help yourself” (firebug, using google as a help tool, finding tutorials online. )
I apologize. I have been MIA moving with limited internet access. But I am back!! (from across the ocean)
I decided to do a quick indexhibit 101.
Reviewing:
adv mode
setting up the menu
changing the order of the menu
organizing it chronologically
setting the thumbnails or other choices
preview.
If the video is long enough maybe I want to review firebug. This has been an invaluable tool and I think users like me, would appreciate a 101 of this tool from me.
I had been planning to just post it on youtube. Is that what everyone else is doing?
As for my site. I still have to make the adjustments we spoke about in class.
I am not sure if I will be able to finish it by this afternoon, but I guess it always is a work in progress.
I hope you had as much fun reading that title as I did writing it.
Anywho, we are currently working on some technical issues tied to the production of this upcoming blockbuster, but in the meantime below are the tutorial instructions that inspired the film-adaptation. Some quick background on the concept of the tutorial: we’re approaching this from the standpoint of the average type of person who would use Indexhibit. The target audience therefore is individuals who have been able to install and setup an Indexhibit site but would like some direction on how to modify their site’s appearance without having to work with too much code. Here is the pdf version of instructions.
4 am, and I am proud to announce that my plugin has just been submitted to the Indexhibit forum. You can see my thread here.
Here is the link to my zipped plugin file, which contains the css, Mushon’s index.php files, and a **read-me** file (at 4am, this seems like a stroke of genius).
Also, you can see my blog Metaphora here. It is still a work-in-progress, as is everything in life I suppose. There is one thing I’d like to problem solve in class if we have time. Otherwise, I’ll be beginning to add content over break, and make coding tweaks when the spirit moves me.
Signing out for the night, see you guys tomorrow (well…today)
OSD love,
Alexandra
so i have been working with the free trial of snapz pro- there seems to be something wrong with my quicktime and i keep downloading the newer version to no avail. anyway, step 1, is below in a very rough form. i am going to try to sleep for a few hours then fight quicktime.