User Requests Quest - CSS "themes"

I have only one design idea... Let each user build his/her own CSS style. I even have the idea on how to implement this with minor growing pains, although it would require that all of the bgcolor, color, etc tags be replaced with class="whatever" tags. On the HTML side, we could do a

<head>
<title>$current_node</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.pl?style=$user_pk"
+ title="Default Styles"
media="screen">
</head>
<body class="myBody">
<!-- ... and so forth... -->
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and on the database side, a table like

create table user_styles (
  user_pk varchar2(x) primary key references whatever.user_pk,
  mybody  varchar2(32),
  mytable varchar2(32),
  mytr    varchar2(32),
  mytd    varchar2(32),
  myth    varchar2(32),
  mylink etc, etc, etc,
);
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I'm not sure I'm making myself clear, but if you need a sample with source I can soupe something up... (and if you need a reference on my so called design skillz, please check out my website.

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!

updated idea:
...and if you don't feel like creating your own style, you could always select from a library of presets and/or have a "dropdown" or something for other monks themes.

Maybe even a "most popular themes" thingy...

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RE: User Requests Quest - CSS "themes" by wonko (Pilgrim) on May 02, 2000 at 11:03 UTC
Good idea. And I don't think it woud be so much changes to the HTML code; you just have to link the CSS file and the browser does the rest.. nice website btw. /wonko	[reply]


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