+1 for the concept. I'm doing this today for my sites. I
use the sections module plus the admin theme from civicspace plus my
controlpanel module and I agree it saves a lot when trying to theme
your site. <br>
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der<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bčr Kessels</b> <<a href="mailto:ber@webschuur.com">ber@webschuur.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi there,<br><br>First of all, i don't want to restart this endless debate, I just want to get<br>those that are already behind this idea, going. :)<br><br>I have just managed to set up a theme, for my sister. She is graphical
<br>designer so it had to be "nifty" or "appealing". But I refuse to get into<br>flash and that crap.<br><br>I managed to create a theme from scratch, that uses image galleries, books and<br>a few static pages, in less then four hours. (will launch somwhere December)
<br>That is, four hours after I did the layout in inkscape and illustrator (just a<br>drawing suite). So, that is four hours to:<br>* make the HTML (validate)<br>* test the CSS on various platform. (okay, ie5 (mac) is omitted, for now)
<br>* make that a theme<br><br>But, off course, the admin part breaks horribly. Absolute positioning,<br>hardcoded CSS dimensions and more of such 'niftyness' + Drupal admin don't go<br>together, never.<br><br>So why this mail? Not to tell you how quick I can theme ;) But because I have
<br>now proved, *to myself*, that I really need that admin theme. It shortens the<br>themeing, or design of a site with over 750%. That is an afternoon vs a week!<br>So, as of today, I really beleive that a lot of developers, themers and users
<br>can get their site online in *at least* half the time they would usually<br>need, had they not have to bother abotu that admin part.<br>And yes, I beleive it reduces usability, but if it obviously saves so much, I<br>
think it is worth that loss!<br><br>Here is my plan:<br> * get the amin part out of civicspace (Robert Douglas, did you not already do<br>this?)<br> * upgrade sections to ship as teh engine to achieve this admin-theme-magic.
<br><br>Anyone who wats to jump on this boat, please grab me on IRC, or by mail (ber<br>curlything webschuur com). It should be a matter of hours to get this done.<br>From then on we can look if more plp are interested, maybe even get all this
<br>shipped with core in a distant future.<br><br> Bčr<br><br>Oh and for the record: the HTML is non-table, the *complete* stylesheet (i<br>trew out drupal.css, off course) is just under 120 lines!<br>--<br>| Bčr Kessels |
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