September 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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Everyone Please Read: Theme Development with Dreamweaver
by Peter Apokotos 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

If you are interested in a Adobe Dreamweaver third-party extension for novice to advanced theme developers please contact me privately. This extension would aim to ease the development time in creating simple to advanced templates for Drupal 5/6 and so on if there is enough interest. When you contact me please let me know if this would be for work, personal use or both and how much would you be willing to pay for something like this extension? I apologize in advance for the cross post but I need these responses as soon as possible. Thank you, Peter Apokotos

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Function to print the secondary element of a non-active menu?
by danyv＠focusweb.ca 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

While using primary links with secondary links as sub-items, is there a function to print all the secondary links for a given non-active primary link? For example: -A |-1 |-2 -B |-3 |-4 -C |-5 |-6 Let us say I click on primary link A but I'd like to print somewhere on the page the secondary links under B (3 and 4). Is there a way to do it? My PHP skills aren't that great and I've been reading a lot about Drupal but I can't seem to find the function I need to do that. Thanks for any help. -- Dany V.

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published date image
by Peter Apokotos 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Does anyone know of a script be it javascript or php that will allow me to generate images for example here with the current date that a page or article is published? Here is the link to the icon that I have in mind. Thank you, Peter Apokotos http://www.apokotos.com http://www.macmariner.com http://www.knightrider.org

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