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= Meta Wiki: discussion about the Cloudy trac site =


== How to improve the site navigation ==

=== Stage 1: ASCII mockups of what we want ===

See NewSiteNavigation. 

=== Stage 2: implementation ===

Once Stage 1 is complete, we will need to code it up in html and stick it in `templates/site_header.cs ` (requires root access to server). 

== Changing the look and feel ==

How to do this is described in TracInterfaceCustomization. At least the logo has now been changed, but Ryan implied that this needed root access, which was problematical. However, it seems that you can do a lot of customization using CSS, which can easily be prototyped by loading a personalised stylesheet into the browser, as I describe in CssPrototyping.

An example of a more extensive skinning of the interface is [http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki the Twisted site]. A brief description of how to go about this is given [http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/01/12/how-to-skin-a-trac/ here].

=== Do we want to modify the use CamelCase links? ===

Will: 

 * I think activating the ''ignore_missing_pages'' option would be a good idea, so that camel case variable names won't get interpreted as wiki page links.  


== Plugins ==

What trac extensions do we want to have installed?

 * [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TagsPlugin Tags plugin]
 * latex math plugin (there were various options for this e.g. [http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/LatexFormulaMacro],
   also might be useful to [http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/PageToLatexPlugin export to LaTeX]) (note: this
   requires latex + dvips to be installed, which is currently not the case on the webfaction server)
 * anything else?

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Enjoy! [[BR]]
''The Trac Team''

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