Dream Garden layout

Designing the HTML CSS ids/classes for a very customizable CSS layout.

Pseudo-HTML

List of ID classes

• header -- top of the page
  • titles -- contains page titles
  • journal-nav -- contains menu navigation for the journal
• body -- contains the content and sidebar(s)
  • content -- contains content, whether entries or other
    • content-header -- pagination before entries
    • content-main -- contains all the entries
    • content-footer -- pagination after entries
  • modules -- contains modules, usually to the side
• footer -- what goes here anyway?

Header

<div id="header">
  <div id="titles">
    <div id="maintitle"><h1>TITLE</h1></div><!-- journal main title -->
    <div id="subtitle"><h2>SUBTITLE</h2></div><!-- journal subtitle -->
    <div id="pagetitle"><h2>PAGETITLE</h2></div><!-- title of the page we are viewing -->
  </div><!-- END CLASS title -->
  <div id="journal-nav">
    <ul>
      <!-- Should these be IDs or classes?  Can we expect more than one? -->
      <li id="profile-nav">PROFILE</li>
      <li id="recent-nav" class="active">RECENT</li>
      <li id="read-nav">READING</li>
      <li id="archive-nav">ARCHIVE</li>
      <li id="tag-nav">TAG PAGE? OR SHOULD THIS BE IN SIDEBAR WITH TAGS?</li>
      <li id="website-nav">WEBSITE</li>
      <li id="bookmark-nav">BOOKMARKS</li>
      <li id="gallery-nav">GALLERY</li>
      <li id="guestbook-nav">GUESTBOOK</li>
    </ul>
  </div><!-- END CLASS journal-nav -->
</div><!-- END CLASS header -->

Content and Modules

<div id="body">
  <div id="content">
    <!-- CONTAINS CONTENT, WHETHER ENTRIES OR OTHER -->
  </div><!-- END CLASS content -->
  <div id="modules">
     <!-- SEE MODULES PSEUDOCODE -->
  </div><!-- END CLASS modules -->

Entries

Can be used for the recent post page, the reading page, and day views.

Possible entry classes:

• latest-entry
• guestbook-entry

<div id="content-header" class="pagination">
  <ul>
    <li class="page-back">BACK</li>
    <li class="to-bottom">BOTTOM</li>
    <li class="page-forward">FORWARD</li>
  </ul>
</div><!-- END CLASS top-pagination -->
<div id="content-main" class="entries">
  <div class="entry">
    <div class="entry-label">
      <div class="entry-filter"><!-- Security icons/text goes here --></div>
      <div class="entry-date"></div>
      <div class="entry-subject"></div>
      <div class="entry-groups"></div>
    </div><!-- END CLASS entry-label -->
    <div class="entry-poster">
      <div class-"entry-poster-info">
        <div class="entry-poster-icon"></div>
        <div class="entry-poster-name"></div>
      </div><!-- END CLASS entry-poster-info -->
      <div class="entry-comm-info">
        <div class="entry-comm-icon"></div>
        <div class="entry-comm-name"></div>
      </div><!-- END CLASS entry-comm-info -->
    </div><!-- END CLASS entry-poster -->
    <div class="entry-content">
      ENTRY CONTENT GOES HERE
    </div><!-- END CLASS entry-content -->
    <div class="entry-meta">
    </div><!-- END CLASS entry-meta -->
    <div class="entry-tags">
    </div><!-- END CLASS entry-tags -->
    <div class="entry-actions">
      <!-- NOTE: Which of these actions will be relevant? -->
      <ul>
        <li class="numcomments-entry"></li>
        <li class="comment-entry"></li>
        <li class="link-entry"></li>
        <li class="edit-entry"></li>
        <li class="tag-entry"></li>
        <li class="bookmark-entry"></li>
        <li class="track-entry"></li>
        <li class="tell-entry"></li>
        <li class="flag-entry"></li>
      </ul>
    </div><!-- END CLASS entry-actions -->
  </div><!-- END CLASS entry -->
<div class="entry-separator"></div><!-- for usefulness -->
</div><!-- END CLASS entries -->
<div id="content-footer" class="pagination">
  <ul>
    <li class="page-back">BACK</li>
    <li class="to-top">TOP</li>
    <li class="page-forward">FORWARD</li>
  </ul>
</div><!-- END CLASS bottom-pagination -->

Entry/Comments

<div class="single-entry">
  <div class="entry">
    <!-- see above -->
  </div>
</div><!-- END CLASS single-entry -->
<div class="entry-comments">
  <div class="comment comment-toplevel">
    <div class="comment-info">
      <div class="comment-subject"></div>
      <div class="comment-date"></div>
      <div class="comment-poster">
        <div class="comment-poster-icon"></div>
        <div class="comment-poster-name"></div>
        <div class="comment-poster-ip"></div>
      </div><!-- END CLASS comment-poster -->
      <div class="comment-status">
        <!-- Contains all the screen, delete, etc. -->
      </div><!-- END CLASS comment-status -->
    </div>
    <div class="comment-content">
    </div><!-- END CLASS comment-content -->
    <div class="comment-threads">
      <!-- Contains reply, thread, expand -->
    </div><!-- END CLASS comment-threads -->
    <div class="comment comment-evenlevel">
      ...
      <div class="comment comment-oddlevel">
        ...
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="comment-select-links"></div>
</div>

Modules

Possible module-box additional classes:

• calendar
• free-text
• link-list
• tag-box
• first-sidebox (since some browsers do not do selectors well)
• last-sidebox
• middle-sidebox

<div id="modules">
  <div class="modbox">
    <h3 class="modbox-title"></h3>
    <div class="modbox-contents"></div>
  </div><!-- END CLASS modbox -->
</div><!-- END CLASS modules -->

Footer

What to put here?

• Design credits?
• Fun quote or saying?
• When the page was loaded for the viewer (like in Smooth Sailing)?

<div id="footer">
WHAT GOES HERE ANYWAY?
</div><!-- END CLASS footer -->