Marketing: default CSS?

I was discussing Seaside with a customer. The guy came up with the, I
think, good tip that it would be worthwhile to work a bit on the
out-of-the-box experience. Default Seaside sites are ugly, and only a
light bit of css would help a lot (sans-serif font, sensible values
for h1, h2, ..., maybe a bit of background color on h1 - stuff like
that). As an added benefit, default sites would be "branded" -
recognizable as Seaside sites.

I'm not entirely sure how this could be best done. The main issue is
of course that someone should be able to remove this CSS in a very
easy way..
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On 18-Jan-06, at 1:04 PM, Cees De Groot wrote:

> I was discussing Seaside with a customer. The guy came up with the, I
> think, good tip that it would be worthwhile to work a bit on the
> out-of-the-box experience. Default Seaside sites are ugly, and only a
> light bit of css would help a lot (sans-serif font, sensible values
> for h1, h2, ..., maybe a bit of background color on h1 - stuff like
> that). As an added benefit, default sites would be "branded" -
> recognizable as Seaside sites.

I second this.

>
> I'm not entirely sure how this could be best done. The main issue is
> of course that someone should be able to remove this CSS in a very
> easy way..

There could be another standard style library added to Seaside and it  
could be included by default when you create a new seaside application.

Our company has it's own default style library that is added to every  
seaside application.


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The article "The Importance of Being Pretty" <http://www.wired.com/ 
news/technology/0,70037-0.html> seems relevant to this discussion.

Rick

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To distill the content of this article to one sentence (so you don't have
to click on the broken link to read the old news dressed up in new
pseudoscience):

"In [...] one-twentieth of a second [...] people make aesthetic judgments
[...]"

That's about one frame of television.  Ever catch a meme about subliminal
messaging being slipped into your movies, like roofies?  Same idea.

People cannot REACT in one twentieth of a second -- this is why drag race
"Christmas trees" have yellow lights, to allow anticipation.  The RESULT
is what I care about (does the user reach for the back button?), and
that's not what's being measured here...

Jeremy




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