Theme development

Hi I was wondering though there are many themes for the new 4.7. Is it possible some of the 4.6x themes might go over ok? I know some wont. But I am trying to figure out if I will have to do my marvin black theme all over from scratch or if I can copy over bits of CSS or just use the same theme on 4.7. While Marvin Black is based on camelon I also like Marvin 2k. I noticed one cvs theme(not marvin) said it would work on both versions of drupal. A few if I look in cvs don't say which version they may work with. Though they look like fairly new themes.

Ok... Theres still a few things I haven't mastered, I'll be honest up front BUT I do have a site installed and running at this place if you care to look. I'm using Pushbutton right now and haven't messed with that ones graphics. Others I have..

I have read Customization and Theming and most of it... kind of doesn't make sense. I'm not a coder by nature so I can't read PHP that well yet. I can read HTML and CSS, thats about it. Also I do know my way around graphics editors so thats no worry.

I've searched the forums on editting themes and haven't found the info I'm looking for but found some cool looking sites(or decent ones anyways) such as;
Terminus1525
Zimmer Twins
Poquer Red
Illect(I think this is Drupal?)
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Cialog

I don't want anything advanced like Terminus(although it'd be nice) but I don't want default themes either because they just don't cut it in the real web. Its hard to actually get a project rolling until you get its theme down first...

Hi all,

working on my theme at http://poquer-red.com which is very image intensive I achieved a great improvement in speed using mod_expires to define 1 month expiration time for the images.

Basically this apache mod adds a line containing expires HTTP headers to the objects specified.

Okay. I'm trying to make my site use different page-whatever.tpl.php files depending on which section of the site the user is at. I've seen various examples in the forums and handbooks (separate admin theme, separate front page theme, etc.) but I've yet to see an example of someone trying to use multiple page templates.

Below is the code I'm using in my template.php in order to switch templates (I'm not a coder and my php skills are VERY limited, so bear with me here...the code is cobbled together from several example snippets):

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {
  switch ($hook) {
    case 'page':
      global $user;
      if ($vars['is_front']) {
        $vars['template_file'] = 'page-index';
      }
      elseif ((arg(0) == 'admin')) {
        $vars['template_file'] = 'page-admin';
      }
      elseif ((arg(0) == 'group')) {
        $vars['template_file'] = 'page-group';
      }
      elseif ((arg(0) == 'add')) {
        $vars['template_file'] = 'page-addnode';
      }
      break;
  }
  return $vars;
}

The front page renders correctly (using the correct template) but the rest simply default back to page.tpl.php. What am I doing wrong?

FYI, the drupal version is HEAD from a few weeks ago and I'm using clean urls and pathauto and some manual url aliases to deal with urls.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Good day,

Plz can any one say how can i develop a new theme....
what and all is necesary to develop a theme..
bez when i see the themes developed by drupal different themes will have different files in it ..
so can any one plz help me
plz help me i m struggling a lot

Cheers,

Hi everyone.
I'm currently developing a web site for a commercial activity.
I'm using the ecommerce module for its products functionality.

The default behaviuor of drupal when displaying multiple nodes on a page's content
is to render them vertically one after the other.
Something that can be summarized by the following diagram: