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i have nothing to do with this site or article, i just wanted to pass along a really great 6 part tutorial GoMediaZine did on creating and theming a Drupal site from in Illustrator. one of best things about is its very long and detailed. i am using it now.
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http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/create-a-killer-band-site-with-drup...

Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal: A 6-part Tutorial Series
Posted by Jeff in Tutorials
Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 12:03 pm []
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of the bands on Sony's record label are powered by Drupal. Drupal is basically an open source CMS, and I was interested in learning more about it. So that's why he's writing this tutorial for us. You can learn along with me!

Below is a summary of the ground covered in this tutorial series:

* Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal - Introduction - We introduced this series and gave some examples of Drupal being used to power rock bands and whole record labels. Two prominent examples are Ozzy Ozborne and Sony BMG Records MusicBox.
* Create a Killer band site in Drupal - Part 1 - Design - We reviewed the process of designing the "Go Band" band site. We used the vector graphics program Illustrator for this development phase. Though Photoshop is a more popular choice for website design and could be used with Drupal development as well.
* Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 2 - Slicing in Illustrator - We show you how to slice the design and prep the images for the web in Illustrator.
* Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 3 - XHTML - We covered the process of converting our design to standards based XHTML and Cascading Stylesheets.
* Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 4 - Theming Drupal - We converted our XHTML/CSS into a working Drupal theme. We reviewed how to find and use code from freely available themes. We discussed how to build a collection of reusable code.
* Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 5 - Drupal Admin - We learned how to install modules, work with blocks, turn on themes, and got to know the backend of Drupal.
* Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal - Part 6 - Resources - In this tutorial your currently reading we review the extendibility and resources of Drupal and conclude this series below.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

roborracle’s picture

roborracle commented

I can't get it to work - I'm running 6.3 though. I don't konw if that's an issue. It doesn't even appear in my theme menu.

devilhoused’s picture

devilhoused commented

Hello. I have been watching your post because I share a similar issue to this one. I also see that your question stands unanswered here. Have you found a solution at all? I have compared my own theme with several other functional themes, both core and user-contributed. I believe that the theme I created, which was originally adapted from the "Go Band" theme, should be version 6.x compatible. Alas, it doesn't appear in the themes portion of my Drupal admin. Perhaps we can work through this... Thanks and look forward to hearing from you soon.

entrigan’s picture

entrigan commented

but like you mentioned it is for drupal 5, which means there are a couple of differences. The main difference is you need a themename.info file in your theme directory. For more information on that read the theming handbook, or just download a stock drupal theme and compare with its .info file.

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devilhoused commented

Thank you for your reply.

In response, I have read through the steps for updating a 5.x theme to 6.x before. I also created the .info file before and I compared it with other themes that do function in version 6. I have a couple of Drupal 6 books that I am consulting and I have paid attention to the various documentation online. I am miffed by the fact that it still isn't working because I have made many adjustments along the way. I am determined nevertheless. Thanks again and if you have other recommendations, I am very open to suggestion. I can provide source code if that helps; it is currently served on my local machines only.

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entrigan commented

Interesting. I am not a themeing expert, but here are a few things that come to mind:
1) a .info file is all you really need to get you theme recognized by drupal, so I would think this is the source of the problem.
2) your .info file needs to have the exact same name as the theme, and the theme directory (I believe) so make sure that all matches up and capitalization is correct
3) Clear your cache..., http://drupal.org/node/337176
4) run a few proof of concept tests, like can you install a contributed theme, e.g. Zen or Sky.

good luck.. its really all about narrowing down the issue at this point.

D34dMan’s picture

D34dMan commented

Here is what i did...
(Tested on Wampserver, with Drupal 6.2 )

Modifiy the goband.info file to contain this..
------------------Copy Paste Text between these lines--------------------------------------------

name = goband
description = any discription
core = 6.x
engine = phptemplate
stylesheets[all][] = style.css

regions[top_nav] = top nav
regions[sidebar_right] = Right sidebar

-----------------------Copy Paste Text above this lines---------------------------------------------

notice the name inside the second regions[], "sidebar_right", this is a small difference between the solution that is being posted in another forum. AND that my friend will solve the missing right pane issue :P

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D34dMan commented

Sorry i forgot to mention that entrigan guidance is korrect.