Brett -- Thanks for the quick response! I'm going to go ahead and try what you told me. It sounds like a good plan!!

Thanks again, and I'm still open for suggestions from everyone as I continue to work on this, but it seems like Brett may have provided a good solution.

Cheers, David

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Brett Evanson brettev@gmail.com wrote:

a subtheme might be a great way to go here. create a folder inside your existing theme's folder, and duplicate whatever files you need to overwrite or modify, and then make your modifications. it will show up as a new theme, and you can use things like taxonomy_theme or similar modules to set certain paths to use your new theme!

Brett http://brettevanson.com

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Big Brother ignorance.is.strength@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hi Everyone,

My boss has a special request of me. We want to make a "sub-site" of the current site we are running, which is:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com

I need to build a sub-site which will use most of the current theme but with about 15-20% of changes. For instance, I am going to need to change the banner for this "sub-site", get rid of the left column, and change what's on the right-sidebar.

Is there an easy way to do this without having to make a whole new drupal installation just for this sub-site?

If this isn't clear enough, please let me know and I can further explain what I'm trying to do.

Thanks!

David B.

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for the suggestion. I fooled around with it for a bit today and got some decent results. However, the problem I ran into is that I need to change the right sidebar as well, and I can't figure out to do that with your suggestion.

Above, the suggestion by Brett seemed like it would solve this, but when I applied his solution the CSS of the new subtheme I made broke... sorta. Now:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield2/

You notice that there is no sidebar at all, though I have set blocks up for the new subtheme, and the body are is black instead of white. Otherwise the logo looks fine... hehe.

If your way provides a method for me to be able to manipulate the right sidebar as well then I will just go ahead and use your method. I'm not sure if it's possible, though.

Thanks again!

David

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Matt Galvin mgalvin@simplifiedcomplexity.org wrote:

Hi David,

You might want to try:

http://drupal.org/node/104316 - Using different page templates depending on the current path

Hope this helps.

Best,

Matt Galvin http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.org/

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Big Brother ignorance.is.strength@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hi Everyone,

My boss has a special request of me. We want to make a "sub-site" of the current site we are running, which is:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com

I need to build a sub-site which will use most of the current theme but with about 15-20% of changes. For instance, I am going to need to change the banner for this "sub-site", get rid of the left column, and change what's on the right-sidebar.

Is there an easy way to do this without having to make a whole new drupal installation just for this sub-site?

If this isn't clear enough, please let me know and I can further explain what I'm trying to do.

Thanks!

David B.

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Thanks Victor!

I ended up doing what you suggested. I disabled the elements of the right sidebar that I didn't need for the new subsite. It seemed to have worked!

I have another problem now. I am using the PHPtemplate method, provided by Matt above, but it doesn't seem to work for the nodes contained within "thefield2/"

Here's what the design should look like:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield2/

but look what happens when I do this:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield2/test-4

The PHPtemplate engine should look for page-thefield2-test-4.tpl.php, then page-thefield2-test.tpl.php, then page-thefield2.tpl.php (which I have in the template folder I am using.

Why isn't it picking up the right template file?

Thanks!

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Victor Kane victorkane@gmail.com wrote:

For the right sidebar, you can configure certain blocks to only appear / not appear on certain paths, for certain roles, etc., by clicking on the configuration link.

Another approach would be to take a look at Panels 2 (there is good documentation on the Drupal site), which is a whole other way of solving your problem (making a different page content type, and then a node/% panel can be set to have a different layout on a content type basis.

Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Big Brother ignorance.is.strength@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the suggestion. I fooled around with it for a bit today and got some decent results. However, the problem I ran into is that I need to change the right sidebar as well, and I can't figure out to do that with your suggestion.

Above, the suggestion by Brett seemed like it would solve this, but when I applied his solution the CSS of the new subtheme I made broke... sorta. Now:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield2/

You notice that there is no sidebar at all, though I have set blocks up for the new subtheme, and the body are is black instead of white. Otherwise the logo looks fine... hehe.

If your way provides a method for me to be able to manipulate the right sidebar as well then I will just go ahead and use your method. I'm not sure if it's possible, though.

Thanks again!

David

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Matt Galvin mgalvin@simplifiedcomplexity.org wrote:

...

Hi David,

You might want to try:

http://drupal.org/node/104316 - Using different page templates depending on the current path

Hope this helps.

Best,

Matt Galvin http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.org/

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Big Brother ignorance.is.strength@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hi Everyone,

My boss has a special request of me. We want to make a "sub-site" of the current site we are running, which is:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com

I need to build a sub-site which will use most of the current theme but with about 15-20% of changes. For instance, I am going to need to change the banner for this "sub-site", get rid of the left column, and change what's on the right-sidebar.

Is there an easy way to do this without having to make a whole new drupal installation just for this sub-site?

If this isn't clear enough, please let me know and I can further explain what I'm trying to do.

Thanks!

David B.

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Victor -- thanks again, I've got it working as I wish now.

I wanted to thank everyone who responded with their advice. I really appreciate your efforts to help me out.

Thank you all so much!

To see what you all helped me make (it still needs some touching-up):

http://www.narconews.com/thefield/

Sincerely, David Briones

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Victor Kane victorkane@gmail.com wrote:

What is "thefield2" ?

If it is a node type, the node template would be node-thefield2.tpl.php.

If you want to make a page template based on url, see http://drupal.org/node/139766

Depending on what you want to do, you might have to create support for a custom template with a php callback function; see excellent tutorial at http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/zirafa/different_node_templates_node_variab...

Victor

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Big Brother ignorance.is.strength@gmail.com wrote:

...

Thanks Victor!

I ended up doing what you suggested. I disabled the elements of the right sidebar that I didn't need for the new subsite. It seemed to have worked!

I have another problem now. I am using the PHPtemplate method, provided by Matt above, but it doesn't seem to work for the nodes contained within "thefield2/"

Here's what the design should look like:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield2/

but look what happens when I do this:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield2/test-4

The PHPtemplate engine should look for page-thefield2-test-4.tpl.php, then page-thefield2-test.tpl.php, then page-thefield2.tpl.php (which I have in the template folder I am using.

Why isn't it picking up the right template file?

Thanks!

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Victor Kane victorkane@gmail.com wrote:

...

For the right sidebar, you can configure certain blocks to only appear / not appear on certain paths, for certain roles, etc., by clicking on the configuration link.

Another approach would be to take a look at Panels 2 (there is good documentation on the Drupal site), which is a whole other way of solving your problem (making a different page content type, and then a node/% panel can be set to have a different layout on a content type basis.

Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Big Brother ignorance.is.strength@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the suggestion. I fooled around with it for a bit today and got some decent results. However, the problem I ran into is that I need to change the right sidebar as well, and I can't figure out to do that with your suggestion.

Above, the suggestion by Brett seemed like it would solve this, but when I applied his solution the CSS of the new subtheme I made broke... sorta. Now:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield2/

You notice that there is no sidebar at all, though I have set blocks up for the new subtheme, and the body are is black instead of white. Otherwise the logo looks fine... hehe.

If your way provides a method for me to be able to manipulate the right sidebar as well then I will just go ahead and use your method. I'm not sure if it's possible, though.

Thanks again!

David

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Matt Galvin mgalvin@simplifiedcomplexity.org wrote:

...

Hi David,

You might want to try:

http://drupal.org/node/104316 - Using different page templates depending on the current path

Hope this helps.

Best,

Matt Galvin http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.org/

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Big Brother ignorance.is.strength@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hi Everyone,

My boss has a special request of me. We want to make a "sub-site" of the current site we are running, which is:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com

I need to build a sub-site which will use most of the current theme but with about 15-20% of changes. For instance, I am going to need to change the banner for this "sub-site", get rid of the left column, and change what's on the right-sidebar.

Is there an easy way to do this without having to make a whole new drupal installation just for this sub-site?

If this isn't clear enough, please let me know and I can further explain what I'm trying to do.

Thanks!

David B.

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