Design themes that you create for your clients now have new features that you can enable.
Javascript Libraries
There are now three different javascript libraries that you can load automatically for any site that is using the design theme. When you enable the libraries they will get loaded in the document head for the site.
- swfobject is on by default since it is used by the current Net-at-hand audio player. However if your client doesn’t really use audio files then there is no need to have it running.
- Jquery has become pretty standard for sites that are wanting to do any significant javascript work. You can read more about it here.
- Jquery UI adds many different widgets on top of jquery. You can read more about it here.
Text for HTML head
There is now a field for the design that allows you to put additional tags within the HTML head for the design. Every page on the site will include the text that you put here. You can use this for loading additional libraries or any other item that you wish to put in the document’s head for the site.
These features were previously available via a plugin, which is still available, but it is more limited in that you cannot override what you put here for special pages.
Why?
These features were added in preparation for a new mobile-friendly design theme group that will be added in the near future. The theme requires a specific meta tag in order to be viewed properly on smart phones, and this new feature will allow us to do that on a theme basis instead of having to install plugins on a site basis.
When the theme is done we’ll be posting it here so you can use it as the basis for your own projects.