<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Apokotos</b> <<a href="mailto:drupal@apokotos.com">drupal@apokotos.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">What is Chipin?</div></blockquote><div><br>It's been used successfully here: <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/3484">http://groups.drupal.org/node/3484</a> . You can google chipin to get the information you need.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div>As for the spec I am not quite sure as to what you mean. Is it retaining to the theming or the extension?
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>The spec would be to describe what the extension to Dreamweaver could do.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kieran<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><span class="e" id="q_1146b00683eb9730_1"><div><div><div>On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Peter, my suggestion would be to go with ChipIn as it's a tool that's worked successfully on
<a href="http://Groups.drupal.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Groups.drupal.org</a>.<br><br>Also, I think we need to do more work on spec so people know what the would be supporting and we need to get more feedback on a spec that people would be willing to pay for it.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kieran<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Apokotos</b> <<a href="mailto:drupal@apokotos.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
drupal@apokotos.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> If anyone would like to donate to this project please go here <http://
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<br><br>Peter Apokotos<br><br><br>On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Steven Peck wrote:<br><br>> Any theme can make all the others go away. However, that is really an<br>> advance theme issue.<br>><br>> By far the vast majority of the Drupal admin population needs the help
<br>> of the included starter css. As such, those advanced enough merely<br>> exclude print $styles in their theme and accept they will need to<br>> build everything from scratch. The rest of us can leverage the
<br>> existing helper css quite nicely.<br>><br>> Drupal 6 theming takes this much further.<br>><br>> -sp<br>><br>> On 8/10/07, Peter Apokotos <<a href="mailto:drupal@apokotos.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
drupal@apokotos.com </a>> wrote:<br>>> Pre-existing modules? If they have defined divs, classes and so on<br>>> then you could just adjust or add the settings to your new C.S.S.<br>>> with your new templates. Of course I also think that the
Drupal.css<br>>> file should go away and have only one style sheet for the majority of<br>>> items. But I would leave the amount of style sheets to each theme<br>>> developer because not everyone works the same way. I personally use
<br>>> just one and use shorthand and compress the sheet as much as I can.<br>>> But I would still like to see all of the module developers use XHTML<br>>> 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0 (3.0 possibly) and I won't pick on them only.
<br>>> Drupal needs it too. Another issue I have is either create a module<br>>> for the <HEAD>So that I don't have to dig down in the core of Drupal<br>>> to add or change items</HEAD> Or just leave the head to be changed
<br>>> independently for each page, article, book, node and so on.<br>>><br>>> Peter<br>>><br>>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Farsheed wrote:<br>>><br>>>> How would such an extension deal with pre-existing CSS
<br>>>> and HTML generated by core/other modules?<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> Farsheed<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> --- Peter Apokotos <
<a href="mailto:drupal@apokotos.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">drupal@apokotos.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:59 AM, sime wrote:
<br>>>>><br>>>>>> Hi<br>>>>>> <br>>>>>> Since I'm getting value out of reading this<br>>>>> thread, my conscience<br>>>>>> says I<br>
>>>>> should mention my current project, even though<br>>>>> I've only used dw for a <br>>>>>> sum total of 3 days in my life.<br>>>>>><br>>>>>> I plan to let dw users edit some individual page
<br>>>>> elements with<br>>>>>> Dreamweaver, individual files for things like <br>>>>> "blocks", "left<br>>>>>> sidebar",<br>>>>>> complete with dummy content. I'm going to mark up
<br>>>>> these files with<br>>>>>> locked tags. Then another process will do the <br>>>>> conversion into a real<br>>>>>> theme using these tags (the designer won't see
<br>>>>> that). The designer<br>>>>>> will<br>>>>>> need to follow instructions to make sure things <br>>>>> are done right (eg.<br>>>>>> css<br>>>>>> files are correctly linked etc).
<br>>>>>><br>>>>>> It won't be a purist solution, but then again my <br>>>>> goals are not lofty.<br>>>>>> Simply allow dw designers to mess with a theme a<br>>>>> little, and in a
<br>>>>>> controlled way.<br>>>>>><br>>>>>> In the meantime, I'll keep reading this thread :) <br>>>>>><br>>>>>> Simon<br>>>>><br>
>>>> One of the key features of this extension would be<br>>>>> the comments for<br>>>>> each of the template files. In the comments you <br>>>>> would read what php<br>>>>> functions you can use or what should be used. Also
<br>>>>> the standard CSS<br>>>>> things like how to wrap the text around a picture in <br>>>>> the content. Or<br>>>>> how to assign a common photo or icon to distinguish<br>
>>>> what category<br>>>>> this content falls under. Like you would find in<br>>>>> the CMS Geeklog. <br>>>>> And that is just the beginning. For example I use<br>>>>> the Well Rounded
<br>>>>> DW extension. Why? Is it because I am too<br>>>>> lazy...no it's because<br> >>>> there is a tool that is drag and drop and saves me<br>>>>> time.<br>>>>>
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