[Building Sakai] Adding New Optional Responsive Portal to trunk

[Steve Swinsburg]

Sounds great Mark, I'm looking forward to seeing it in action.

I presume the new template set (and skin) will be activated via
sakai.properties and:
portal.templates=morpheus

cheers,
Steve


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Mark Reilly <mark.reilly at nyu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am planning on adding the New Optional Responsive Portal to trunk to be
> added into Sakai 10.
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25514
>
> Gonzalo Silverio and I have been working on a new set of velocity
> templates for Sakai 10. The new portal--currently called morpheus-is a
> rewrite of neo-portal templates. The templates are experimental and not
> ready yet for production. All files are in addition to the existing
> codebase and should have no impact on existing code. The morpheus templates
> have been rewritten using HTML5 markup and a fair amount of--no longer
> needed--divs have been removed.
>
> We have also added two new skins, morpheus-default and morpheus-master, to
> the skin folder. Morpheus-deafult is the default skin and is similar in
> structure to the current skins; It contains only css, javascript, and
> images. Morpheus-master is built using sass, a css preprocessor, and it's
> used to build morpheus-default (and in the future other example skins). By
> using sass we can make the process of customizing Sakai much simpler; We'll
> also make it more maintainable by creating one master codebase to generate
> all the various example skins.
>
> We're proposing to incorporate Sass into Sakai in such a way that the
> current skinning workflow won't be changed. For more information see:
>
> https://github.com/alienresident/sakai-portal-assets/blob/master/documentation/Adding-Sass-to-Sakai.md
> Feedback on this process is welcome.
>
> I was able to demo some prototypes and showcase some of the work I have
> done on the new NYU skin (for 2.8)  at Apereo Camp. The work was well
> received and feedback was very helpful. Once we've reached a point where we
> can demo the new skin we'll post links to an experimental build.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Reilly
>
>
> Mark Reilly, PhD
> User Experience Designer
> Academic Technology Services - ITS
> New York University
> mark.reilly at nyu.edu
>
>
>
>
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