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

[Bruce Whealton]

It is clear that all the classes and ids in the style.css file must exist somewhere in the code, be it the xhtml code or the php code.  So, if I have .someclass defined in style.css then that must be applied somewhere in the code (where code can equal simple xthml tags, attributes and etc.)
      I noticed a layout.css is common in the themes also.  I'm looking at argeebee now as it looks simplist to do what I want.  Should I try editing that file also?  
      What I just tried with argeebee by copying example into blackback was a file that somehow is not just all black now but has much more thrown off.  Boxes that I used to be able to see are now gone.  I can't find any more text formatting to change so that it show up again instead of being lost in the black.
  Bruce
  

Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
  Styles can be defined in a couple of different places. The major ones are:

1) misc/drupal.css - LOTS of stuff here that in all liklihood you won't
need to edit much if at all.
2) themes/mytheme/style.css - The styles specific to that theme.
3) modules/mymodule/module.css - A few modules add their own styles, which
usually are just positional. You shouldn't need to play with them for
now.

Most of what you need is in #2. The overall page design and such will be
defined in page.tpl.php (If it's a phptemplate theme) or in whatever the
page template file is for tha theme. I would recommend looking at

- themes/mytheme/page.tpl.php
- themes/mytheme/style.css
- View the page in a browser and do view-source (or view-formatted-source
with the right Firefox plugin)

Odds are those should cover any color and general layout you need to do.

Cheers.

-- 
Larry Garfield

On Fri, March 31, 2006 12:37 pm, Bruce Whealton said:
> 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.
>
>
> I'm just trying to change the font colors and background colors for
> the main content area. So, in style.css I see any number of labelled
> class and ids. Matching them up with something in the php and later
> xhtml file is not at all clear to me. Where is such and such class or
> id being used?
>
> I'm just taking a shot in the dark, thinking, "well, maybe this style
> (class or id) goes with this text on the web page. Does that make
> sense, what I'm trying to describe about my confusion and the conviction
> that I'm missing some information somehow.
>
> I really didn't want it to be this complicated and it didn't seem like,
> from the feedback I got, that it would be this difficult.
>
> The site in question is
> http://ghwilliamscollaborative.com
> It is obvious that the site has problems with the styles for the site.
> Please advise.
> Bruce
> "Boerland, Bert" wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org]On
> Behalf Of Bruce
>
>>They want to see a black background directly around the image/photograph,
>> to bring out the
>> picture in terms of how they like it.
>
> All drupal themes use CSS. It is trival to change the colors. Just look at
> the different CSS files for a theme. Less trivial to make a nice
> colorscheme let alone to come up with a nice theme. Buts just changing the
> background color would be a no brainer.
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