Theme development

years ago i used postnuke and then i found something called autotheme and that helped me design a new theme all by myself without any theming knowledge. autotheme works with PHP-Nuke, Platinum Nuke, PostNuke, MD-Pro, osCommerce, CRE Loaded and WordPress.

i ask this question coz i feel drupal lags behind the above mentioned cms by not having support for something similar. the garland theme is a start and a very good start but its still not there yet.

I'm looking for some guidance on my theme. http://www.consumercowboy.com

I have been working on this theme for a while now and got it to where it works very well in IE but not so good in IE. The basic structure works very well in all browsers, I would like to address the issues in the following order of importance. I would like to thank all for taking a look and lending a hand. Also My site is still in development any suggestions would be great. They can be structural or visual.

1 The issue with the right column, it looks like it has never changed from 210px.

/* With 3 columns, require a minimum width of 1000px to ensure there is enough horizontal space. */
body.both-sidebars {
/*min-width: 980px;*/
}
/* With 2 columsn, require a minimum width of 800px. */
body.sidebar-left, body.sidebar-right {
/*min-width: 780px;*/
}

/* We must define 100% width to avoid the body being too narrow for near-empty pages */
#main {
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

/* So we move the #main container over the sidebars to compensate */
body.sidebar-left #main {
margin-left: -210px;
}
body.sidebar-right #main {
margin-right: -400px;
}
body.both-sidebars #main {
margin: 0 -400px;
}

#squeeze {
position: relative;
padding: 0 1em;
}

/* And add blanks left and right for the sidebars to fill */
body.sidebar-left #squeeze {

http://www.bignyc.org

The prime example of this problem is my event calendar...links at top of calendar for DAY WEEK and LIST view display only as the text "Array"

I've tested in garland, and the links display properly...

What does this mean about my theme?

Any clues would be helpful
Thanks

Hello all Drupal friends

I am using Garland theme, and trying to modify it to make the gradient color header bigger so I can place a larger icon inside. I am using custom colors.

This is what I did for now:

1) modified this line in the style.css file in garland to this:
#wrapper #container #header {
height: 190px; /* it was 80 */
}
This way the header area augments.

2) modify by hand the file body.png in themes/garland/images/
I open it in Photoshop, Gimp or any other editor. Augment the canvas size by 110 up, to 390, moving all the layer same size down. Then select the white upper pixels, copy to another layer, paste and move it to top in the canvas.
Then select the gradient coloured part, scale it up to the white upper pixel. Merge all layers and save as png. Replace body.png with this image.

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For some reason, when I generate the theme again with my custom colors, the image body.png is still 280 pixels and not 390 as it should be.

I can manually fix this doing by hand point 2) with files/color/garland/body.png. But the other graphics that depend on a well generated gradient ( those sorrounding the logo and the square over the sections) don't be modified by this, so it is not a nice solution.

I think that somewhere in Garland theme is the solution for this, so I can generate all images automatically.
Do you know where?

Is there any way to find out if a theme is a subtheme? I'm developing several similar themes as subthemes, and, for CSS reasons, I need to know if I am using a subtheme (and if so, which one). I'm trying to place the necessary code in the main theme's template.php file, but path_to_theme() only returns the path for the main theme. Am I missing something here, or is there another function I should use?

hi

I am trying to simplify my earlier set of questions. I am working on a site called http://www.hangoutwith.com and am using Aquasoft theme. I have few questions:

1) How can I make News Videos icon (at the top in the Primary Menu links section) point to Categories instead of Aggregator ? When I click on that icon, I would like it to take me to Aggregator/Categories instead of Aggregator. Adding primary link to the menu is just adding one more layer and not fixing the problem.