Playing with templates

As part of the slow software movement, I'm taking my time with a new template I call medium because it is inspired by the template used on medium.com. There's a big picture at the top of the page, a title and a sub-head, followed by the body of the post.

The idea is that it's supposed to look good no matter what picture you put up there. And the bigger the better. And it should look good on a mobile device. And all the parameters come from the attribute hierarchy, so you can have global defaults, and override them on specific pages.

Anyway, enough hype, here's the beef...

Pointers
  • The template is in this outline.

  • This is the outline for my test site.

  • Here's an example page about Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

  • And another example -- about Bargniani, a player on the Knicks.

  • I was having so much fun I did another story about Clara Peller, the Where's The Beef lady.

  • Then Adam posted a picture on Twitter, I thought it would make an interesting page.

The text on the pages of course is purely silly. It's the container that's interesting.


Last built: Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:39 PM

By Dave Winer, Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 9:04 AM.