[support] Editting themes? Documentation

[Bruce Whealton]

Laura,
        What are "theme snippets" and "php snippets?"  And here is a page describing how to edit the user profile layout and display.
  It's called Customizing the User Layout
  http://drupal.org/node/44481
  While it gives and example of a profile_profile.tpl.php the description of how it works and what it's doing seems too limited for me to figure out the different ways one can edit the profile display.  I'm feeling somewhat ignorant, but I do know how to work with php somewhat.  Here's one thing that stands out, the fact that the profile_profile.tpl.php file doesn't already exist.  So what is controlling the display of profiles now before one were to follow these directions to customize the user profile layout?
   
  Then there is a theme that displays the drupal image in the background of the wallpaper.  Is the best way to change that going to be creating another image with the same name and extension but with a different image/picture, something more fitting my site?  Or is it better practice to edit the code?
  Thanks,
  Bruce
Laura Scott <laura at pingv.com> wrote:
  Hi Bruce,  

  In general, to change site colors, all you should need to edit is the style.css file in your theme directory (yourdomain.com/themes/yourtheme). Each theme is styled differently, so there are no blanket tags I can suggest, but in general the tag names are rather intuitive (e.g., .node). By revealing codes on your displayed pages, you should be able to find the appropriate css tag in the style.css file and make the appropriate changes.
  

  For more involved changes, the handbook has a couple of areas -- the "theme developers guide" and the "theme snippets" under the "php snippets" area.
  

  I hope this helps!
  

  Laura
  
    

  

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    On Mar 1, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Bruce Whealton wrote:

    Hi all,
    ?I had seen some documentation that went beyond the more basic documentation but I'm not seeing it now.?I'm looking for more advanced topics like changing a sites look slightly, like if a theme was nice but the colors were not quite right, or if other things needed to be changed on the page look and feel, layout and navigation, etc.?Can someoen tell me where to find the documentation that I might want to read?
  ?lt;/DIV>   Also, are there other themes out there that are not on the page
  drupal.org/project/themes
  That I might want to look at?
  Thanks
  Bruce


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