Advisor Summit Day Three (part 2)
Like rats from a sinking ship, Henry and I bailed this afternoon on our original session. It's not that it was a bad session in any way, just that between us, we did 10 presentations this week and when we started reviewing this last one, How to Make IBM Lotus Domino Sites That Don't Look (or Act) Like Lotus Domino, which we were giving together, the conversation went about like this:
"Hey, uh, I already showed this Date Picker stuff in another session."
"Yeah, me, too. And the NAB-picker."
"And, CSS, you did a whole session on it and I talked about is some in my Advanced Topics session."
"And the Action Buttons. They've seen that..."
...and so on. Not everything in the presentation was a re-hash of topics we'd already covered but a whole lot more than we'd've liked. So, we did what any self-respecting presenters would do, we ran like Jesse Owens with the KKK in trail.
Straight to the bar.
NO, not REALLY. We did ditch the presentation, though, and replace it with another. At Lotusphere this year we did a Hands-On session where everybody brought their own computers worked along with us. We showed them how to use CSS to transform the standard Discussion Template into something you could be proud of by getting rid of the framesets, nixing the Java applets (except one), and doing a lot of easy things that make it just a whole lot nicer.
We resurrected that Hands-On and presented it as a lecture where Henry typed and I gabbed about what he was doing. If you're trying to learn a bit about CSS (other things, too, but mostly CSS) and you have an hour or two to kill, you ought to give it a try.
Attached here are two files: The Hands-On Parts database we have used to pre-build some of the parts for you, and a Word document with a complete set of step-by-step instructions telling you what to do. To these, you need to add a new database made from the R6 Discussion template, the subject of your overhaul.
I think you'll find it a useful exercise and, hey, worst case is it beats doing real work. Download it here.
1. Newbs04/25/2006 05:27:52 PM
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Hey, I enhanced the MenuHTML to work without the Web QueryOpen agents... See the update here: http://www.henrynewberry.com/newbs/newbsblog2.nsf/d6plinks/HNEY-6P7RZL
