August 2007 - themes - lists.drupal.org

Dreamweaver Cheese
by Eric Lawrence 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

A Dreamweaver extension could serve the purpose of luring people in the right direction. I was the typical designer who started out with the Dreamweaver crutch before I discovered the joys of xhtml/css . Most people that use Dreamweaver use it because they don't know any better and you can't really change that until they sink their teeth into a project and find out that it is really holding them back. I explored Mambo/Joomla! before Drupal back in the day because it did have a Dreamweaver extension and that made me feel like I was on familiar ground. I've seen other designers do the same for similar reasons. In the end the extension would not be that useful but I see valuable PR opportunity. The perceived value of the extension would be transferring the wysiwyg power of Dreamweaver to Drupal theming but the true value would be it's role as a a helper tool/ or visual quick-start to visually understand the components of what makes a theme in Drupal. eric http://www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/#dw_extension > > Further up in the thread I alluded to the idea that many people chose > Joomla > because it had a Dreamweaver extension. For an advanced user like > yourself > this extension will probably not be helpful. The question is could it > pull > the next level of design talent towards Drupal? > > Cheers, > Kieran > > > On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Kieran Lal wrote: > > > Further up in the thread I alluded to the idea that many people > > chose Joomla because it had a Dreamweaver extension. For an > > advanced user like yourself this extension will probably not be > > helpful. The question is could it pull the next level of design > > talent towards Drupal? > > > I largely agree with Laura (that Dreamweaver is useless), but there > is non-trivial learning curve for dealing with phptemplate, and > creating a drupal theme. If work towards this extension would > flatten that learning curve I think it's a positive step. Needing a > button to insert <?php print $primary_links ?> into your template, > and knowing that $primary_links even exists are separate issues. I'm > much more interested in solving the latter ;) > > blake hall > > >

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Re: [themes] themes Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24
by 袁韬韬 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

I am codeing in gVim on windows, the encoding is utf8. But I didn't fount there is something strange in my source code... And, what does "have the utf8 BOM on" means? Thanks.

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Is this a Bug?
by 袁韬韬 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Simply a little test: 1,create a new theme folder "testfoo". 2,create a page.tpl.php which has a content: <?php print $content; ?> 3,create a node.tpl.php which has a content: <?php print $title; print $content; ?> Ok, now enable the theme, you will found there is a strange character before the every title except the first one. Is this a bug? Thank you !

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translate ASCII punctuation characters into typographic HTML
by brendan 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hello, I was reading an article on Jeff Croft's site, where he says that his team developed something like this: ( http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/ ) for Django/Ellington. Is there anything like this for Drupal? -- *brendan, fresh-off.com* Creative Direction & Consultation: Web | Print | Brand *Office Hours 10am - 7pm, Mon-Fri* http://fresh-off.com hello(a)fresh-off.com <mailto:hello@fresh-off.com> *206.328.1067* seatte.usa

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color module and fixed colors
by Florian Loretan 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

I'm using a slightly modified version of garland for a project, using the color module to shift all colors from blue tones to green tones. Now the problem that I have is that the stars indicating required fields are light blue instead of red, which makes their meaning less clear to the average user. There is a similar issues for message boxes, where warnings are blue but regular messages are red. The color module handbook at http://drupal.org/node/108459 gives a good explanation of the process, and indicates how to make sure that some colors are fixed (they stay the same no matter what the color scheme is). I added the "Color Module: Don't touch" marker in a comment as indicated, moved the "span.form-required" (used for the stars indicating required fields) after the marker and made sure that the color-shifted copy of style.css was regenerated, but for some reason the marker is ignored. So my question is: has anyone gotten this marker thing working, either with garland or with another theme? and if so, do you have an idea of what I could be doing wrong? Thank you, Florian

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experiences with DW extensions?
by Eric Lawrence 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

I agree we need to do some ground work to figure out exactly what we want before we ask for it. Has anyone used a similar extension in DW before? I've used one for Mambo/Joomla! a while back but all that really did was give you a list of common variables to plug into a file. A helpful reference, but did not really change how I worked. What are the limits of a Dreamweaver Extension? I'd love to see some examples of similar extension applications if anyone has a link or extension name that may be relevant. Peter, my suggestion would be to go with ChipIn as it's a tool that's worked > successfully on Groups.drupal.org. > > 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. > > Cheers, > Kieran > > On 8/14/07, Peter Apokotos <drupal(a)apokotos.com> wrote: > > > > If anyone would like to donate to this project please go here <http:// > > donorge.org/d_donate/basket_add/0/1/1014> > > > > > > Thank you for your support on making this project a reality. > > > > Peter Apokotos > > > > > > On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > > > > > Any theme can make all the others go away. However, that is really an > > > advance theme issue. > > > > > > By far the vast majority of the Drupal admin population needs the help > > > of the included starter css. As such, those advanced enough merely > > > exclude print $styles in their theme and accept they will need to > > > build everything from scratch. The rest of us can leverage the > > > existing helper css quite nicely. > > > > > > Drupal 6 theming takes this much further. > > > > > > -sp > > >

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Dreamweaver CS3 Extension for Drupal Themeing
by Peter Apokotos 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

Does anyone know of any plans to create an Dreamweaver CS3 Extension for Drupal Themeing? If not I would like to put some money in the pot to get one started if needed. Anyone else looking into doing the same? With the condition that it becomes an open source extension and is maintained till either Dreamweaver is completely gone (does not mean change of companies or name changes) or Drupal is (does not mean change of developers, companies or name changes). Peter Apokotos http;//www.apokotos.com

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Porting Creative Commons designs
by Alexandru Badiu 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Hello, Over the years I ported some designs to Drupal, designs released under Creative Commons. Now I'd like to release them to the public and also port some new ones, to give back. I know that the drupal.org cvs is only used for GPL-ed code, but at the same time I see a lot of themes up there ported from other CC designs. My question is: is there a different policy for themes or it's just something which is being overlookd at this point? I could always create a project page and point people to my website for downloads but I'd like them to be on Drupal.org. Best regards, Alexandru Badiu http://www.voidberg.org

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