************************************************************************** * * * The Sinorcaish Stylesheet * * Copyright (C) 2004, John Zaitseff * * * ************************************************************************** The Sinorcaish stylesheet project gives any web site an attractive, clean- look interface while maintaining a separation of style and content to the greatest possible extent. This allows the web author to concentrate on the structure and content of his or her documents, rather than on their presentation. The following history is presented in reverse chronological order. If you would like to see a list of detailed changes to this project, you should consult the CVS repository for "sinorcaish" on The ZAP Group web server at http://www.zap.org.au/services/cvs/. Version 1.0 (1st December, 2004) -------------------------------- Needed an attractive, clean-look web site design for a particular project in November, 2004. Looked at a number of styles available on the Open Source Web Design web site (http://www.oswd.org/) and elsewhere. Sinorca (http://www.oswd.org/design/1165/sinorca/) by Haran Sivakumaran seemed to be a good starting point. Sinorca, in its turn, was based on the Acronis company web site (http://www.acronis.com/). Although the Sinorca stylesheet was quite good, it seemed rather limited: it did not allow floating text boxes, did not really cater for computer- oriented documentation (which requires appropriate styling for elements like , and
),  and completely ignored (data)  tables and
many other XHTML elements.

These limitations,  along with  the desire to  update parts of  the visual
interface, led to Sinorcaish:  a complete redesign and reimplementation of
the Acronis look-and-feel.  Wrote  a comprehensive "How to Use Sinorcaish"
sample  document, created  template files  and images,  and  submitted the
result to the Open Source Web Design group in December, 2004.