I joined this list only because I saw this thread. Not that I am a drupal wizard running a 1000 sites, but it immediately struck a chord.<img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif"><br><br>Like many other people, I have found creating a drupal template intimidating, but I can handle Dreamweaver reasonably well. In fact, at one point of time last year, I was ready to dump drupal in frustration, so I went looking for and purchased Project Seven's dreamweaver template extensions. They come with superb guides that tell you how to customize them. All I had to do was to learn a bit of Fireworks to customize the images in the templates and I was immediately more productive than I had ever been with drupal.Today, even a charity doesn't want a plain looking site, despite all the power that drupal has under the hood.<br><br>I think the only people capable of taking this project and seeing this through are CivicSpace. I also think that the $3k is too
steep- for example, the Project Seven templates are not more than $90 and they are truly terrific. Of course, the end price doesn't reflect the development costs, so the point is moot. <br><br>I personally think that if the module is made available as a commercial module, designers familiar with DW and looking to bridge the gap would really make a beeline for it. Is there space within the drupal ecosystem for such commercial offerings?<br><br>I don't know if I will be in a position to donate to the project, but I just wanted to voice my strong support for such a project.<br><br>Thanks,<br>venkat-rk on drupal.org<br><br><br><br><b><i>Peter Apokotos <drupal@apokotos.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><div><div>On Aug 7, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font
color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="109471922-07082007">There is a lot more to Dreamweaver than the wysiwyg aspect. it is very handy when working with complex cascades like those that can occur in Drupal.</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="109471922-07082007"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="109471922-07082007">That said, I still don't get what Peter is looking for here.</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="109471922-07082007"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="109471922-07082007">Cary</span></font></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></blockquote><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I just
want a tool that will be kept up to date with Drupals' theme and CSS requirements so I don't have to redundantly create the basic files for each tpl file.</div><div>With being disabled it is very hard for me to keep focus on what I am doing and because of the pain I am in I often make mistakes. Before the accident I could make drupal phptemplates fine.</div><div>But why go through the hassle if a tool can be made for Dreamweaver that will give me more time writing material than making templates for my 180+ domain names? And on top of that I am the type of person that may change a template one day or week to week. I get bored easily.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Peter</div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>themes mailing list<br>themes@drupal.org<br>http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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