Template Toolkit Tutorials for Designers

frostman has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh Wise Monks!

I have been blessed with the opportunity to hand off a project full of Template Toolkit template construction to a certified, business-carded and self-identifying Designer.

He is one of those Designers who is not also a Programmer. And so I find myself in search of tutorials, confessionals, documentationals and/or Books covering the grand realm of TT2 from a Designer's point of view.

So far all I've found either assumes you belong or aspire to the Perl tribe, or presents such simple examples as to be LTI - Less Than Inspiring.

In case it matters, my Designer's prior experience is mostly with something called "JSP," which I take to be some obscure flavor of ice-cream.

I expect good things from this guy, but I don't expect him to start hacking Perl anytime soon.

So, gentle Monks, onto which paths of meditation shall I send this Novice?

...many thanks...

-- frosty

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Re: Template Toolkit Tutorials for Designers by perrin (Chancellor) on Feb 13, 2007 at 23:33 UTC
Get him the TT book from O'Reilly. It's the best intro available.	[reply]
Re: Template Toolkit Tutorials for Designers by clscott (Friar) on Feb 13, 2007 at 21:40 UTC
If your designer can do JSP, they can do TT just fine. JSP allows full java expressions to be intermixed with the HTML (or whatever else the output is). Give him a brief overview on variable access, looping, includes, etc. then install Template::Plugin::Stash so he can inspect the data provided to the template . Provide them with the templates and let him start asking when he sees things that he doesn't understand. Another approache to let him produce the html, images and css mockups for the pages and you add the TT tags to it for the first few iterations of the new design. -- Clayton	[reply]