Theme development

Hi everyone,

I've been promising (threatening) to do this for a while, so I took some time out to get it kick started over the last few weeks. It's based on the enormous success of the "Sliced Bread php Snippets" idea, which has grown considerably since it started in 2005.

It's a new approach to how themes and layouts are contributed to Drupal and is based on the following assumptions:

• There are very few themes being contributed to Drupal compared to modules
• Drupallers may not have the time to contribute their themes
• Drupallers may feel nervous about many people using their themes and every site looking the same as theirs
• Drupallers might prefer to have a distinctive and exclusive design/layout. (illustrated well by the responses to "Why can't I get the drupal.org theme?")
• It's quite a job to prepare a full theme for distribution - because of the sheer depth and dimensions to Drupal, it's not just a "skin" that is needed, it's a collection of themes that covers the front, blogs, lists, admin, comments, nodes etc.
• The first thing Drupallers do when they download a theme, is strip it apart
• It's much easier for Drupallers to contribute theme and layout snippets rather than full themes

Modular based theming

Drupal is 5 years old and it's incorrectly compared by some to other blogging or CMS tools where only a "skin" is really needed. The depth and dimensions to a Drupal site means a "skin" is not enough. I would argue that it is a collection of skins for specific areas and therefore it is difficult to expect the THEME DOWNLOADs section of the site to be just as populated as other sites.

I am trying to implement an table-free theme based on the Pushbutton theme using Skidoo's Ruthsarian Layouts (http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/skidoo/). It works fine in Firefox and Opera, and validates as true XHTML 1.0 Transitional. But in Internet Explorer 6 there are bugs: You can't highlight (and copy) text, some borders and images disappears.

http://synet-consulting.com/

If anybody is interested, I would be glad to contribute this theme variation.

One thing I had trouble with was the font in the header of the main block. I wanted it to be white against the blue background, but couldn't figure out how to do it. If anybody can give me a clue, please post.

I'd like to theme $tabs using the following ALA technique:
http://drupal.org/node/31704

Does anyone know how this could be done? I'm using a PHPTemplate theme.

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm using the Goofy design on 4.6.5 and would really like to replace the standard 'view', 'edit', 'outline', 'revision', diff tabs along the top of the page with some small graphics.

I've found the lines in menu.inc that can switch some of the tabs off and also play about with them a bit. However, I'm not really sure how I can do something like change the view tab to a small screen graphic, make the edit tab a small pencil graphic etc

Any help would be really appreciated.

Cheers

Hi!

I use a modified Spreadfirefox theme. So I have right of my site much blank space. Now I want put there a banner or an image.
I think that I can do that with a div tag. But I don't know what exactly must i write in the style.css file. And in which .php file of my theme must i put that div tag?
Hope you can help me.
My site can you visit unter http://www.fill.de.vu

felix