Jean-Marc's slides for his Europython 2005 talk are now online.

One great thing about his talk is that he’s come up with a “Top 10 reasons to use CPSSkins” which are:

• 10. modify your site design without restarting the server
• 9. cache page fragments without setting up a Squid
• 8. create a design that works on all CSS2-compliant browsers
• 7. do tableless design without spending hours on it
• 6. respect Web standards without reading the W3 specs
• 5. create visual variation across your site
• 4. prevent content creators from altering the site’s design
• 3. allow content creators to be more creative, but not too much
• 2. focus on form and content and not just on technique
• 1. don’t reinvent the wheel, spend time on real development

One can read more background information about CPSSkins in Jean-Marc’s last year talk (but this was before the introduction of portlets into the framework, so things have changed quite a bit this last year).

I think that CPSSkins doesn’t yet have the success it deserves, probably because people don’t yet get the whole advantage they can get from using it, and this is a shame because it is really a terrific product.