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Hi all,

Quite a while since our last post, and that's with good reason. Past few weeks, we prepared what you could call the 'launch of the XCCK development'. Or in other words: we took the time to prepare the development of the Xoops Cube CCK, to sit back think about it, write down the wanted features and prepare for development. And today we can finally present you with what we're actually trying to build, as did we set up a project on sourceforge, organised a tracker, wiki, forum, homepage

For now we have about 4 developers in the team (Nuno Luciano, prof. Hidetoshi, Eikasai and Dirk Derom), but as you might expect, we're eager to get more developers on the project, so this post is not only to inform but also to attract anyone who wants to contribute in whatever way he/she wants to, be it design, coding, documenting

Btw, you can read this post in two ways: short version is to skip all that follows in this post and go straight to the feature list and project overview to get an idea on how we're currently organised (=project overview) and what we're trying to develop (feature list). Or you can read through this post (the following content can also be found on our homepage) and then go to the feature list and project overview.

For those who like some more info:

XOOPS Cube Legacy version 2.2
Theme design by Nuno Luciano

Ajax jQuery Tools + corner
Layout with Top Panel Over content
Top panel with 3 blocks:
custom block, block search, block login/user
FORM elements design using CSS

XOOPS Cube Legacy version 2.2
Theme design by Nuno Luciano
Banner picture from Jan Kounen movie Dobermann

Ajax jQuery Tools + corner
Layout with Top Panel
Top panel with 3 blocks:
custom block, block search, block login/user
FORM elements design using CSS

XOOPS Cube Legacy version 2.2
Theme design by Nuno Luciano

Ajax jQuery Tools + corner
Preload page images (css based)
Layout right column
Header with active tab selected
Light version without custom design of form fields

XCL 2.2 Theme built with BlueTrip CSS Framework

Highly inspired by Gijoe work ^_^

This is a sample to show how to build a theme with a css framework and how to simple manage multiple blocks position by order/weight from admin interface.

The project released XOOPS Cube Legacy (aka Package_Legacy) 2.1.7.
This is a minor upgrade version from 2.1.6a, contains many fixes and many
enhancements and includes all patches of 2.1.6a security fix. more...

The project released XOOPS Cube Legacy (aka Package_Legacy) 2.1.7 RC. This is a minor upgrade version from 2.1.6a, contains many fixes and many enhancements and includes all patches of 2.1.6a security fix.

Please test this RC and report issues if you encounter any troubles. You may post reports to the project forum or local community forum. more...

"One of the most difficult tasks people can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games."

C.G. Jung

Since XOOPS Cube branch 2.2 main goal is to improve User Interface, documentation and show the possibilities of Legacy. We start a designers workshop with a short explanation of Legacy features and a simple 'game' with a combination of challenge, competition and interaction to have fun.

Saying we could do almost everything, I had to create a development environment, downloading and installing a server and the last Package Legacy (SVN) to create a Mac-like web desktop.

Only open source technologies and software were allowed. The final site should run with default package only, without any extra module installed.

Here is the stuff used and the final web site

Since some designers will join XOOPS Cube Project, the CSS Frameworks and Themes from XCL UNMG distribution repository are moved to xoopscube-themes.

Main task is to create a few themes built on CSS Frameworks and Wanikoo Themes. Finally release these themes as samples and make tutorials to set free everyone creativity. Volunteers with html and css skills are welcome! more...

The originally XCL UNMG distribution repository has now a huge list of XOOPS Cube modules that can be found in Compatibility wiki reports and that should benefit from the 'common interface'. Main task is to review templates and icons set. Any volunteers with html and css skills are welcome.

XOOPS Cube UNMG Distribution is released with the first changes to Package Legacy branch 2.2 and samples (data and themes). more...