styiling the archive
I'm already a user of mailman and it works pretty good. A client asked me if it's possible to have the archive online and to integrate it in his website. So my question is: "Is possible to add some markup and css to the mailing archive to make it pretty to integrate with the website?"
thanks.
On Oct 01, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Federico Vezzoli wrote:
I'm already a user of mailman and it works pretty good. A client asked me if it's possible to have the archive online and to integrate it in his website. So my question is: "Is possible to add some markup and css to the mailing archive to make it pretty to integrate with the website?"
Yes, it's open source so of course it's possible. :)
The question is how difficult it is to do. You may have to hack the Python to get it to look the way you want.
-Barry
Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Oct 01, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Federico Vezzoli wrote:
I'm already a user of mailman and it works pretty good. A client asked me if it's possible to have the archive online and to integrate it in his website. So my question is: "Is possible to add some markup and css to the mailing archive to make it pretty to integrate with the website?"
Yes, it's open source so of course it's possible. :)
The question is how difficult it is to do. You may have to hack the Python to get it to look the way you want.
Actually, I don't think it's difficult. The pipermail archive is already template driven so unless you want to get really tricky, you should be able to just edit a few templates.
See templates/<language_code>/arch* for the templates and the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9 for editing instructions.
So my question is: "Is possible to add some markup and css to the mailing archive to make it pretty to integrate with the website?"
Yes, it's open source so of course it's possible. :)
The question is how difficult it is to do. You may have to hack the Python to get it to look the way you want.
Actually, I don't think it's difficult. The pipermail archive is already template driven so unless you want to get really tricky, you should be able to just edit a few templates.
See templates/<language_code>/arch* for the templates and the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9 for editing instructions.
Yes, it's definitely possible and AFAIK not terribly onerous except that there's a few files to edit and apparently it's easy to miss one. If you've got someone who's a bit of a wiz with CSS, you can do some very impressive stuff just by adding a stylesheet link into the templates. I *know* I've seen some very slick themed archives but I apparently don't have the bookmarks anymore. Anyone who did that want to brag?
Terri
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