Question Template issues under alpha2

Thank you for the clarification, I thought this change was intended.

Dr. Wuah wrote:

same probleme on my installation. Doesn't matter what template I choose - the default template css is still used.

Also the "kunena.forum-min.css" file is used instead of the normal kunena.forum.css file. Can you tell us what's the difference?

This is a requirement for all new templates for Kunena. We minify all css and js to save space and speed up page loads.

Every template should ship with both the cleartext and a minified version.

So both files:

kunena.forum.css
kunena.forum-min.css

must be present to avoid errors. You can automatically create the minified version from your css if you have an automatic build - like we use for Kunena or you can minify your css before you zip it up through online tools like: refresh-sf.com/yui/

Simply copy and paste the css into the window - or select a file to upload, select css and hit compress (wrong word, as minification is not the same as compression).

In many cases the minified version of the css will be significantly smaller than the original, making site using that template perform much better and get better pageload stats. Nowadays google is starting to take page performance into consideration for its search results.

Hope this helps!

FYI: To All Kunena template designers: Submit your templates to the newly created Kunena Extension Directory (KED). We hope this will become the single central solution to lookup your templates easily.

there were a couple changes between alpha 1 and alpha 2 (i like them, even though these css files are still really big) - can we expect more?

Ok, thanks for your quick help - now I understand the new template system!

There are huge amount of improvements in K1.6 templating. Many bugs have been fixed and there have been large changes in both html and css to make templating easier. So yes, there will be many changes in templating in the next 1-2 weeks (before/after beta1), but after that templates should stabilize a lot.