Hi!

Love Basic! Saved me from driving myself NUTS trying to use Zen!

Anyway, was hoping to upgrade from 1.2 to 2.0 but when I did so my layout broke.

Are there any basic things I might be missing in upgrading from one to the other?
Should it not just be as simple as uploading the new version and then uploading my main.css into ./css ?

Thanks!

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Hi,

The thing with basic is that it is designed to be a solid BASE to build a theme. It gives you a standard layout, and some simple tools you can use to build your own.

Once your theme is built, there is no need to upgrade as it is not basic anymore, it's YOUR theme. So unlike ZEN, there is no reason to upgrade BASIC to its newer version if your theme is already built. You can use the most recent version of basic if you start a new theme, but the upgrade is not something you want to do, as it wont really bring any improvement to your theme if it's already built.

The best example I could give you is that every time I use basic, the first thing I do is change its name to the name of the website I'm going to theme. So in the first 10 minutes I use basic, I already make it my ow.

We'll make sure that we specify this in the README.txt

Hope this helps.

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austintnacious CreditAttribution: austintnacious commented

Hi yes, that did help, thanks!

Do you know, is there anyway then to tell Drupal to stop looking at the themes when it's checking for updates.

I just don't like having the alarmingly colored red entry for Basic, declaring "Not Supported!"

You know what it's like when you're working with clients and their reps, things like that can make one look bad. . .

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Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented

There's few ways..

One would be to... release your theme on drupal.org ... but not sure that's what you want to do...
I think that if you change the info file, update stop checking as it's not on d.o

For example if you site is called 'supercool' :

- rename the theme folder to 'supercool'
- rename the info file to 'supercool.info'
- edit the info file and change the information to :

name = supercool
description = supercool theme just for me
version = "6.x"
core = "6.x"

- edit the template.php and replace each instance of 'basic' by 'supercool' (also in 'theme-settings.php' or any other template calling for a theme function)

Now your theme is total custom, and I THINK that it shouldn't even appear in the update page. Try this and tell me if you're having troubles.