December 2005 - themes - lists.drupal.org

Some theme proposals for SEO
by Laura Scott 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

One of the websites I developed has a reasonably strong presence on Google News. However, many, if not most, of the links Google has are titled "Add New Comment". I wondered why, and came to the conclusion that google is reading the "links" tags that contain that link as containing the permalink. So I have changed that class tag to "action". While I was at it, I also changed the title tags to h1. I will watch over the coming week how Google News reads the content with these changes, and report my results here. But I think that SEO is something that is worthwhile for consideration as an ongoing theme development topic. Already Drupal sites do quite well. On regular Google search, sites seem rather well optimized. But these anamolies, such as with Google News, point to areas where we might look to improve. Does anyone else have thoughts or experiences on SEO, and how we all might modify existing themes and alter approaches to future themes? Laura -- pingVision <http://www.pingv.com> | interactive media design *Laura Scott*, President laura(a)pingv.com • 303.459.4859

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search bar
by David K Norman 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Using the theme option to turn on the search bar in 4.7, I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the search button to stay on the same line as the search input field. The div between the input and button is causing a line break I don't want. Using css to white-space: nowrap; on #search is futile. Any help? <form action="search" method="post"> <div><div id="search" class="container-inline"><div class="form-item"> <input type="text" maxlength="128" class="form-text" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys" size="15" value="" alt="Enter the terms you wish to search for." /> </div> <input type="submit" class="form-submit" name="op" value="Search" /> <input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" value="search_box" /> </div> </div></form>

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Mac IE is no more...
by Theodore Serbinski 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

http://www.jimmygrewal.com/?p=187 Bittersweet news indeed, but for us themers, this will certainly help out, no longer do we need Mac IE specific hacks, this browser has been phased out and as word spreads and people adopt Safari, our CSS should start to become a little bit cleaner, and a little bit easier to maintain and write. Just some forward thinking for anyone working on new themes (myself included). ted (m3avrck)

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Re: [infrastructure] themes.drupal.org, in need of some xmas love
by Bèr Kessels 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Op dinsdag 27 december 2005 17:06, schreef Robert Castelo: > Section 508 > WCAG > > The WCAG standard has 3 different levels of accessibility: > > WCAG Priority 1 > WCAG Priority 2 > WCAG Priority 3 I would like to ad a vocabulary.Should I add: * Section 508 * WCAG or * Section 508 * WCAG ** WCAG Priority 1 ** WCAG Priority 2 ** WCAG Priority 3 I ask this because I do not know if we need that finegrained-ness. I don't know much about all the accessibility levels, so I cannot find out how many themes would actually fit in any category. Would it be merely two themes? Or more like 80% of them? Bèr -- PGP ber(a)webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels(a)gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc

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Programmatic CSS
by Mark Fredrickson 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Hello- I have not done a lot of theme hacking, but it seems to me that generally a theme is composed of static CSS and dynamically created (X)HTML. I am wondering if it is also possible to create dynamic CSS. For example, in the current system, it is easy to create zebra striping by alternating classes on markup (say block divs). By alternating between .zebra1 and .zebra2, a theme creator can highlight every other block on a page. Of course, the classes themselves are defined in a static CSS file that is fetched from the server. I was recently looking at Eric Meyer's Color Blender: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ And I thought: wouldn't it be cool to do this programmatically on the server side? (To fade my blocks down the screen, for example.) The obvious solution would be to tag each block with .fadeN class, where N is updated for each block. After I made all the blocks, I could go back and make N classes, each with a different color, faded from color1 to color2. Is this possible? It requires the construction of a CSS file on the fly. I could not just add the styles inline, because I don't know how many blocks there are until the end (something of a halting problem). It would be easy to link to 'dynamic.css' in the file (this can be done statically), but how would I get the dynamic.css file properly served to the user? Moreover, it might be better to code each .css file with a unique identifier, so that the styles won't be improperly cached. Another option might be to make an inline <style> ... </style> section and stick it back in the DOM. Of the available options, this sounds like the easiest. In the end, it might be best to create something like the forms API to manage dynamic CSS. It could be a very powerful feature, and easily encapsulated into a few functions (add_css(), render_css(), etc): <?php $css['classname1']['classname2'] = array( 'color' => '#12AB00', 'text-align' => 'left' .... ); // equivalent to //.classname1 .classname2 {color: #12AB00; text-aling: left;} Add_css($css); ?php> Thoughts, suggestions? Mark Fredrickson E-Advocacy Manager Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota 1200 Lagoon Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55408 Ph: 612.821.6154 Fax: 612.825.3522 Email: mfredrickson(a)ppmns.org Are you a member of the Action Network? http://www.ppaction.org/ppmsd/join.tcl

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Drupal Main Theme page - A Suggestion for Improvements
by Trae McCombs 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

* resending this as it wasn't in the archives ** archives should now be fixed. fwiw. Hi all, If you go to this page: http://drupal.org/support You will see a variety of information for someone looking for support. However, if you go to the main Drupal Themes page, you are simply confronted with a bunch of themes to download. I suggest we create a Launching page for the Main Themes page too. We should have at least the following: 1. Prominent Large Image pointing to the Themes Gallery (Think Drupal News Letter "Ad" on the front page of Drupal.org) Perhaps links to themes hosted elsewhere. (offsite from drupal.org) 2. Themes Help area that lists the following links: - Basic Themes Help: http://drupal.org/node/39451 - Manage inconsistancy in themes: http://drupal.org/node/37156 3. IRC Channel This should simply mention the #drupal-themes irc channel on irc.freenode.net. 4. Mailing list info Info about this mailing list. 5. Other stuff... ... I'm not sure who is the person that would or does have the permissions to do this. I would not mind doing it if Dries gave me access to the site to do it. Thanks for your time, Trae -- Trae "occy" McCombs || http://occy.net/ Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com CivicSpaceLabs - http://civicspacelabs.org/

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Re: [themes] usability and accessibility improvement
by Michelle Cox 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

There is a module to add a block for changing the font size. I'm with Ber, though, and ended up uninstalling it because it made more sense to just let the user set it in their browser. Michelle On 12/19/2005 3:50:26 AM, Egon Bianchet (egon.bianchet(a)gmail.com) wrote: > Hello, > I'm wondering if there is a plan regarding usability and accessibility > of standard Drupal themes. > > I'd > like to know if somebody already thought about implementing: > > - skip-navigation, return-to-top links > - change-font-size, high-contrast-css links > - internal, external and mailto links differentiation > > -- > Egon Bianchet <egon.bianchet(a)gmail.com> > > _______________________________________________ > themes mailing list > themes(a)drupal.org > http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes

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usability and accessibility improvement
by Egon Bianchet 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hello, I'm wondering if there is a plan regarding usability and accessibility of standard Drupal themes. I'd like to know if somebody already thought about implementing: - skip-navigation, return-to-top links - change-font-size, high-contrast-css links - internal, external and mailto links differentiation -- Egon Bianchet <egon.bianchet(a)gmail.com>

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Fwd: [General inquiry (other)] Contributing Themes
by Dries Buytaert 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Can someone on this list help Ken? :) Begin forwarded message: > From: ken(a)metaskills.net > Date: Mon 19 Dec 2005 01:02:53 GMT+01:00 > Subject: [General inquiry (other)] Contributing Themes > Reply-To: ken(a)metaskills.net > > Ken Collins sent a message using the contact form at > http://drupal.org/contact: > > I've been using Drupal for almost a year now and I am very > interested in > submitting my theme to the community. See metaskills.net for a > preview. I > am testing with 4.7 now too. Whom do I submit these two, I would > love to > share and help drupal become a more user-centric blogging app. > > TIA, Ken -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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comments in $links --> move it elsewhere
by david hodgkins 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I want to move the number of comments 'indicator' (i.e. 3 Comments) elsewhere. (Yet keep the original $links intact.) I want something like this in my node.tpl.php: Comments in this Entry: # (where # is any number, 0 on up, and the # linked to the comments.) I've tried a few things (like comment_num_replies<http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/function/comment_num_replies> ($pid) and others from drupaldocs, but I usually got an "array" or a total of all comments on my site. Has anyone figured this out? Any way to do this? (drupal 4.6). silverwing

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