[support] menu not appearing expanded

[sander-martijn]

Well I can give you an answer from someone who knows css html and php 
quite well and has been doing all of them for a decade, give or take.  
Theming in and of itself is not that difficult.  However it will 
certainly seem so from the online documentation.  I beat my head on the 
wall yesterday for hours while reading through page after page of 
documentation and not even understanding where to start - The html, css 
and javascript being done and a solid knowledge of php, all i had to 
know was what I needed to add to the code, how and where and I could 
handle the rest.  The documentation seems to be bent on the idea that 
everyone wants to modify an existing theme (and a browse through the 
theme repository shows that that's exactly what many do) rather than 
implement a custom design delivered by a designer.  Furthermore most of 
it speaks in drupal.  Lastly, a lot of things are simply not documented 
or missing important details.

I finally gave up on the documentation and went to b&n and picked up a 
copy of Pro Drupal Development.  Within an hour I had a theme working 
that somewhat resembles the site and have a good idea of what I need to 
do for the rest.  I'm now hacking through the menu structure to get my 
css dropdown menus working.

In short, it's not theming that's difficult, it's finding good 
information on it that is.

.sander

Jean Gazis wrote:
> How hard is it for a non-programmer to learn just enough PHP to do 
> theming, or is that in itself a stupid question? Compared to say, 
> learning CSS. (I mean not learning PHP instead of CSS, but I have been 
> learning CSS so it is a reasonable benchmark.)
>
> Jean