On 01/04/06, Bruce Whealton brucewhealton@yahoo.com wrote:
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.
You should only really need to edit the themes stylesheet. That stylesheet can pretty much override any other styles in Drupal (it is imported last).
You don't mention (or at least I didn't see it mentioned) how much you know about CSS. You'll need to have a fairly good understanding of selectors and the 'cascade' or inheritance in stylesheets.
The one thing I absolutely recommend as a must have is using Firefox and its Web Developer extension to dig into the page and highlight blocks ids classes etc etc. You can even use it to try altering the CSS on the fly to see whether or not your are changing the right bits.
-- Cheers Anton