Current Status

There are currently NO templates built. I'll be building this with raw pages that re mated to the work I am doing with http://code.google.com/p/starterkit/. You can incorporate the two as you need to.

Thanks, Dave

Blue Channel Features:

• Page
• Create Multiple Page Types

Blue Channel Versions

• Blueprint CSS version 0.7
• jQuery version 1.2.1
• Django Trunk

Blue Channel Dependencies

Blueprint CSS is a fantastic framework for CSS. Using the grid layout, a designer/developer can quickly deploy a fantastic solution with established conventions. Blueprint CSS was launched by Olav Bjørkøy and he has done a great job developing the framework.

And jQuery is an amazing and light framework for JavaScript. Write less code. Do more stuff. jQuery was developed by John Resig and continues with contributions by many developers.

If you are interested in contributing, please do! There are many ways to skin a cat, maybe you know a less messy one. You can contact me direct at dave.merwin@gmail.com.

Please Note:

I update SVN religiously. I will not be using downloads. Please do a SVN checkout to get code.

Warning

You would be ill advised to grab this code and push it to a server and call it a day. First it will be bloated with comments for documentation. Second, it will require a great deal of HTTP requests to large files. These files are left uncompressed to learn from, but it will add overhead to your site if you load them as is. Where I work, we use different methods to get all of the requests down and to compress the file size.

For CSS Compression you can start here: Blogging Pro: CSS-Optimization

For JavaScript optimization you can start here: Websiteoptimization.com: JavaScript Optimization

More performance hints here: Websiteoptimization.com: Speed Tweaks