Ideas on Skinning

I am trying to develop a "skinned" website (static). I am totally new to the concept but have done a bit of googling on skinning and have checked out the "invision board" skins.

I understand it will involve separating the content from the design/UI.
Does this mean images go in the images folder and css/javascripts are referenced externally and go in the scripts folder etc. or is there more to it?

I am really stumped on where to start.

Any ideas, suggestions or resources?

Thanks,
Ashwin

If you're talking about what I think you are then - yes. You reference the css and js files.

You want a kind of template but with different content, yeah? You want to be able to change the template and for it to be reflected in all your pages? Then you have to do exactly what you said.

I would really like a few resources to mull over if you have any.
That would really help

Ashwin

Do you want to copy someone else's design or are you OK with the whole design thing?

Basically, if you can make a style sheet that you like, you can put that in a .css file and put a link too it in tour pages. It looks like this : <link href="classes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> (this is from my site which is here : http://cheers-sendai.com (we have a small English school)).

As far as your style sheet and pages go, your content will be in DIVs and you'll have one that you want to change on each site - the content. Call that something like 'content' or 'text' and it'll be easy to remember.

So that's your style sheet.

For javascript, you do the same thing in a .js file. The link to the js might look like this : <script type="text/javascript" src="newlayers.js"></script> .

If there's html that you want to have on all your pages, one way to do it is to change it to javascript and save it to a .js file. You can easily convert html to javascript here :
http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~is84034/works/mclee_tools/html2js.php. Link it in the same way as above.

I'm really know expert, but I hope this helps you out a little.

By the way - if you need ideas for/ help with style sheets, I really like this guy's stuff : http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/layouts/index.html