Description: This entry tries to sum up a discussion on the mailing list.
See also: PITS.01137 Key PmWiki Features on the front page and PmWiki.RoadMap-Talk.
"Get it", "Learn it", "improve it", "communicate"
Brand name to show it is more than a wiki: CMS, galleries, blogging, semantic wiki (PTVs), etc.
Tagline Blues: What's the Site About?
the 960 grid system allows a layout in 2, 3, 4 or 6 columns. GPL/MIT license.
the 1140 CSS Grid - similar grid, scales down to smaller browsers & mobile, up to 12 columns. CC-BY license.
HTML5 Boilerplate - can't find their license info, but they're a github project with tons of contributors and have a HTML5 boilerplate that supports mobile & ajax etc.
RecentChanges, Upload (add file-type icon via css) (See PITS.01310).
Links: color, text-decoration:underline/none, border-bottom:dotted or solid/lighter? Visited/unvisited links.
Sidebars: menu, wikiright, wikileft, wikinav, wikiside, (:noleft:), (:noright:)? Easily switch to right sidebar.
serif or sans? Use of different fonts for menus/content can look ugly. Lot of low-res screens around, so it is probably better to stay with Sans body.
Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? review of 50+ empirical studies in typography: "it makes much more sense to argue in favour of serif or sans serif typefaces on aesthetic grounds than on the question of legibility."
Template structure: header, footer, logo, search: included as pages? Div/CSS, no tables?
(external skin), the content is written with darker letters than the menu so when we see the page, we don't feel overwhelmed by the secondary informations.
mechanism for skin selection and preferences?
have a lot of HTML/CSS knowledge) to see how/where to customize it.
just that "how it looks" isn't the only criterion.