[Zope] Re: Zope and stylesheets

[Tonico Strasser]

John Poltorak wrote:
> I've pulled something from the zope.org website which I want to 
> iincorporate into my own but don't fully understand what is going on. Here 
> are the lines:-
> 
>     <link rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css"
>           href="http://zope.org/ploneNS4.css" />  
> 
>     <!-- Main style sheets for CSS2 capable browsers -->
>     <style type="text/css" media="all"> @import url(http://zope.org/plone.css?skin=);</style>
> 
>     <!-- Custom style sheet if available -->
>     <style type="text/css" media="all">@import url(http://zope.org/ploneCustom.css);</style>
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not very well up on stylesheets so apologies for my newbie questions, 
> but how should I incorporate the lines above into my own website? Do I 
> just need to import the files ploneNS4.css and ploneCustom.css into my own 
> instance of Zope?

What do you want? I quess you want a look and feel similar to zope.org?

> And is it recommended to have a common stylesheets 
> folder for all the websites served from a single Zope instance?

Stylesheets are usually very specific to a Web site and its HTML 
structure, you rarely want to share the same CSS among different sites. 
It doesn't make any difference to Zope if you share your CSS.

Have a look at the CSS-discuss Wiki, this site contains a lot of useful 
information about CSS:
   <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/>

The code you cited above uses the @import hack.
   <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ImportHack>

HTH
Tonico