Theme development

Using Drupal 4.6

Hi all,

Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction. I've developed a simple 3-column theme that's working just fine except for one glitch: when I go into the administer pages, I see everything displayed in my center column but the top portion text and navigation tabs.

As far as I can tell, those elements should just be part of the $content spitout. I have $content embedded in its own < div > in my page.tpl.php with little formatting except for padding & type, and the < div > isn't floated, so I doubt it's my CSS? I tried eliminating the < h2 > segment I have placed directly above the $content just in case; no go. Yet when I switch to a default theme, say Kubrick, I can see the tabs and text as per normal.

Is there some variable or piece of tpl.php I've overlooked that governs the display of the explanatory text and tabbed top menu of the admin pages?

Here's the relevant piece of xhtml:

<div id="middle"><div class="column-in">
				<h2 class="subtitle">un journal du jour</h2>
	                                <?= $content ?>
</div></div>

A snapshot of the problem:
http://cpe-72-224-179-5.maine.res.rr.com/gazetteadmin.jpg

I've searched through other themes to see where I'm going wrong, but only see $content on them as well. Damndest thing; it's likely something really simple I'll kick myself for. Can someone advise me? Much obliged!

Question in developing a new release of the Drupal Theme Generator Program

I am currently working on a new release of the Drupal Theme Generator Program (http://drupal.org/node/36302). A built-in Preview utilizing a preview.html file is used to view the themes on your local machine for quick review.

The problem I am having is that the Firefox browser does not display the referenced images that include a file path in the style.css file. This only affects Firefox and works fine in Internet Explorer 6.

For example, the following three images which include a local file path will not display in the Firefox browser:

/* Custom styles used for graphic image type themes */
td.header-topcenter {
  background: url(file:///C:/My Documents/Drupal Theme Designer/Preview/header-top-center.png);
}
td.header-bottomcenter {
  background: url(file:///C:/My Documents/Drupal Theme Designer/Preview/header-bottom-center.png);
}
td.header-leftcenter {
  background: url(file:///C:/My Documents/Drupal Theme Designer/Preview/header-left-center.png);
}

If I remove the file path statement and just use the image names as shown below, then the images appear in Firefox:


/* Custom styles used for graphic image type themes */
td.header-topcenter {
background: url(header-top-center.png);
}
td.header-bottomcenter {
background: url(header-bottom-center.png);

Hey everyone,

I am a complete CSS newbie...you may remember that about a week ago I was looking for someone to help develop a theme for me. Samat in particular expressed an interest in helping me develop the theme, and I am thankful for his time. But I ultimately decided to try and do it myself. I suppose the spirit of open source CMS got to me. :)

hi,
this is a very simple question.. :)

i'm having problem fix the page width, it jumps around when I open between pages.

for example,

i set the width to 800 pix max, but when i open my node the width changes

can someone help ? tks

Hello

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, so appologies if wrong.

I'm currently running MDPro and am looking to migrate to Drupal. I have a theme I love, and is quite slick, but clearly it was developed to run on the MDPro Theme engine (AutoTheme). I am no where near competant enough to translate this over to one of the Drupal Theme engines, but am quite happy to pay if there is a cooperative designer out the willing to take up the work.

Any takers, respond privately with your email address and we'll talk.

Many Thanks.

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