[support] A shot in the dark - was Drupal themes

[Ron Mahon]

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Regards

Ron Mahon   

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-----Original Message-----
From: Anton [mailto:anton.list at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:35 PM
To: support at drupal.org; brucewhealton at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [support] A shot in the dark - was Drupal themes

 

On 01/04/06, Bruce Whealton <brucewhealton at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 

> Please advise on what needs to be known or done when changing the look of
a

> site.   I've been playing with one theme and have a good reason to believe

> that I'm missing something.  I started with fancy style and hoping that it

> wouldn't be that difficult as it appears that style.css is the file that

> needs to be editted.

> as the main style sheet.

 

You should only really need to edit the themes stylesheet. That

stylesheet can pretty much override any other styles in Drupal (it is

imported last).

 

You don't mention (or at least I didn't see it mentioned) how much you

know about CSS. You'll need to have a fairly good understanding of

selectors and the 'cascade' or inheritance in stylesheets.

 

The one thing I absolutely recommend as a must have is using Firefox

and its Web Developer extension to dig into the page and highlight

blocks ids classes etc etc. You can even use it to try altering the

CSS on the fly to see whether or not your are changing the right bits.

 

--

Cheers

Anton

 

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