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Northwestern's Sakai style
I just saw this blog entry showing off a new Sakai 'skin' for NorthWestern University.
In the future we're planning to change the way the style sheets work. We'd have 3 levels of style sheet.
- Default - The default styles that come with Sakai. You shouldn't edit it, and it's required.
- Tool - Individual tools (e.g the announcement tool, the gradebook tool, etc) will have their own style sheets. These are optional, but it allows the tool developers to add new styles if they need to.
- Institution - This is the institutional style sheet. It is linked after the default and tool style sheets, which means that following the CSS rules for precedence, you can override any styles in in default that you want to change. This is where an institution's (or a departments, or whatever) designer would do their work.
The nice thing is it gives the institution complete flexibility, without having to touch the main style sheet. We use a similar approach in Stellar.
Later: Gonzalo Silverio just pointed me to the instructions for skinning Sakai in case you want you try it yourself.