Demo at http://demo.eugenol.com

Eugenol : a template for Phorum 5

History:
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5.0.9:
- version numbering is synced now with phorum's releases
- empty stdblock.tpl added for compatibility
- fix in read_threads.tpl

0.2
- some xhtml improvements
- up to date with phorum5-cvs-2004082104
- still up to 75% lighter and accessible code than default template
- IE7 is no longer included but still called from header.tpl : download last version at http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ and unzip the archive on top level "/". 

0.1 : initial release written by Promopixel - http://www.promopixel.com

About:
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Eugenol is a semantic xhtml strict template for Phorum 5.
The template is light weight and compliant with the W3C standards and uses XHTML Strict 1.0
along with CSS2 stylesheet.
More information on:
- http://www.w3.org/
- http://www.webstandards.org/

A demo is available at http://demo.eugenol.com

Install:
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Copy the entire "eugenol" directory into /path/to/phorum5/templates/
and activate the template in the admin section of phorum5.

Eugenol uses Edward Dean's IE7 javascript enabling Internet Explorer IE5+
interpreting correctly CSS2 rules ( http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ )
IE7 is distributed under the Creative Commons licence
( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/)

Download and install IE7 in your root directory or change the path in /path/to/phorum5/templates/eugenol/header.tpl

Benefits:
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- Much more easier to customize template since content and style are completly separated
- styles are cached in a separate stylesheet (7.2kb);
- the xhtml code is semantic then avoids mosts of DIV or SPAN tags and uses H3, FIELDSET, UL, P and other verbose tags;
- css really means CASCADING style sheet and uses css2 selectors as most as possible;
- better works with Opera, khtml-based browsers (Safari, Konqueror), IE5(mac/win32), Mozilla and gecko-based browsers, and (best of all) all alternative browsers (lynx, cellphones, browsers for blind people...);
- better indexing with search engines (no tag soup);
- "try" to respect WAI guidelines ( http://www.w3.org/WAI/ )
- produces smaller output then increases your server performances.

For example:
http://demo.eugenol.com/
- Default template: 10.7kb
- Eugenol template: style.css : 7.2kb (donwloaded once) + 1.7kb => -20%

then http://demo.eugenol.com/read.php?1,4
- Default template: 12.5kb
- Eugenol template: 3.5kb => -72% !!!


Improvements:
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Please post your suggestions or improvements on http://phorum.org then everybody
could benefit.