The website http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ present a simple yetlayoutgala

flexible html structure allowing 40 different visualisations by changing
only CSS.

As of 3.14159, ikiwiki (with sidebar plugin) use this DIV structure:

    .pageheader
	.header
    #sidebar
    #content
    #footer

Layout Gala use the following DIV structure:

    #container
            #header
            #wrapper
                    #content
            #navigation
            #extra
            #footer

With this patch the following DIV structure is used:

    #container
            .pageheader
        	.header
            #contentwrapper
                    #content
            #sidebar
            #farbar
            #footer

More detailed, the following is changed:

  * container added around whole body
    + needed for Layout Gala
    + allows setting cosmetic outer space/coloring around whole body
  * sidebar moved below content
    + needed for Layout Gala
    + considered by some to improve accessibility
    + considered by some to improve search engine ranking (a.k.a. "SEO")
  * farbar added (needs clone of sidebar plugin to be of use)
    + no grand benefit - but hurts noone if unused either

The following deliberately differ from Layout Gala:
  * header is a class, not an id
    + too intrusive to change: many iki sites may rely on current class
    + too ugly to add: technically possible to extend .pageheader to
      also be #header while preserving .header, but too confusing with
      both .header and #header meaning different things.
  * sidebar instead of navigation
    + too intrusive to change...
  * farbar instead of extra
    + when sidebar is kept, extend it - inspired by discussion at
      http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=117

This continues to fit pretty well with the proposed naming scheme at
http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/whats_in_a_name_pt2.html
(as it did already with plain ikiwiki - thanks for that, Joey!)

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