Full documentation on the Zen theme can be found in Drupal's Handbook:
  http://drupal.org/node/193318

Excellent documentation on Drupal theming can be found in the Theme Guide:
  http://drupal.org/theme-guide

Specific features on liteForum theme, see http://gausarts.com

You must download and enable Zen prior to this theme! 

Installation:

  1. Download liteForum from http://drupal.org/project/liteforum

  2. Unpack the downloaded file, take the entire liteforum folder and place it in your
     Drupal installation under one of the following locations:
       sites/all/themes
         making it available to the default Drupal site and to all Drupal sites
         in a multi-site configuration
       sites/default/themes
         making it available to only the default Drupal site
       sites/example.com/themes
         making it available to only the example.com site if there is a
         sites/example.com/settings.php configuration file
       
       it is better to placed outside of zen folder for easier upgrade to each!

  3. Log in as an administrator on your Drupal site and go to Administer > Site
     building > Themes (admin/build/themes) and enable liteForum.


  IMPORTANT: In Drupal 6, the theme system caches template files and which theme
  functions should be called. What that means is if you add a new theme or
  preprocess fuction to your template.php file or add a new template (.tpl.php)
  file to your sub-theme, you will need to rebuild the "theme registry."
  See http://drupal.org/node/173880#theme-registry

  The base Zen theme is designed to be easily extended by its sub-themes, such 
  as liteForum. You shouldn't modify any of the CSS or PHP files in the zen/ folder.
  Why? To learn why you shouldn't modify any of the files in the zen/ folder,
    see http://drupal.org/node/245802

  Yet, feel free to modify any of liteForum files to suit your need. Comments 
  and explanations are preserved in each of the files and CSS files




Block and regions:
      See admin/build/block for visual representation or page.tpl for detailed explanations



Out of the box block supports:
    1. Login block, go to admin/build/block, and enable User login for "right ear" region
    2. Search form, go to admin/build/themes/settings/liteforum, and enable "Search box"
    3. Chat block, go to admin/build/block, and create a block containing widget code, 
       such as meebo, gTalk, etc. Enable it for "dock bottom right" region. You should
       adjust width, height though. See http://gausarts.com for a tutorial. You may extend it
       to a contact or feedback form, etc. The jQuery support is included, see script.js
    4. Author pane, go to admin/build/block, and enable it for one of dock bottom regions
    5. Advertisement is supported, see liteforum.css under "Ad Unit Guidelines" and "Universal Ad Package"



Modules and other supports:
    see template.php for each
    1. author pane,  see submission section
    2. imagecache and user picture,  see liteforum_user_picture section
    3. transliteration,  see Tranliteration section
    3. user profile categories,  on User profile category section
    4. maintenance page,  see liteforum_maintenance_page section. Go to
       http://drupal.org/node/195435 if you find trouble
    5. feed icon, see liteforum_feed_icon section
    6. more_link, see liteforum_more_link section



------------------------------------!!!!!!T O D O!!!!!!----------------------------------------------------
Customizing layout:
    For the sake of ease, most of the layout stuffs go to layout.css,
    otherwise most unchanged stuffs go to liteforum.css. See each comment for explanation

Copied from page.tpl for now
 * Page content (in order of occurrance in the default page.tpl.php):
 * - $right_ear: Designer for login block fixed position. Extend it to feedback or contact form
 * - $header_top_left: HTML for date, and other links
 * - $header_top_right: HTML for search box, feed, login block, menus, etc., other than defaults
 * - $header_banner: Full banner advertisement 468 x 60
 * - $feed_icons: A string of all feed icons for the current page.
 * - $preface_first, $preface_middle, $preface_last: HTML for teasers, member avatars, slideshow, whatever
 * - $left: The HTML for the left sidebar.
 *
 * - $breadcrumb: The breadcrumb trail for the current page.
 * - $title: The page title, for use in the actual HTML content.
 * - $help: Dynamic help text, mostly for admin pages.
 * - $messages: HTML for status and error messages. Should be displayed prominently.
 * - $tabs: Tabs linking to any sub-pages beneath the current page (e.g., the view
 *   and edit tabs when displaying a node).
 *
 * - $content: The main content of the current Drupal page.
 *
 * - $right: The HTML for the right sidebar by default.
 * - $right_top, $right_first, $right_last, $right_bottom: More complex combinations inside the right sidebar
 *
 * Footer/closing data:
 * - $postscript_first, $postscript_middle, $postscript_last: HTML for footer listings, links, comments, whatever
 * - $footer_message: The footer message as defined in the admin settings.
 * - $footer : The footer region.
 * - $dockbottom_first, $dockbottom_middle, $dockbottom_last: Author_pane, dock menus, contact form, chat block, etc.
 * - $closure: Final closing markup from any modules that have altered the page.
 *   This variable should always be output last, after all other dynamic content.


------------------------------------!!!!!!W A R N I NG!!!!!!----------------------------------------------------
In the meantime, if you want to enable other sidebars (top, first, last, bottom sidebars) on the sidebar-right region, you MUST also enable "right sidebar" itself! The reason is simply because the other sidebars on the right depends on sidebar-right.

For example, you want sidebar left and sidebar top only. In this case you MUST also enable "sidebar right"
to not break the layout. I did it beyond Zen, I'll work around this. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks




      
      
