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Theme generator
by Khalid B 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Has anyone seen this? http://drupal.org/node/43525 http://drupal.org/node/43449 http://xlecom.com/?q=node/117 Written in Microsoft Excel no less ...

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RE: [themes] Theme generator
by Steven Peck 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

I don't think it was a strange choice. He mentioned why in his origianl announcment. I played with it a little just to check it out. It is fairly restricited to a standard 'format' of site, but it allows for color custimization, borders, fonts and some other stuff. It's quite a nice little app. AND it helps neophytes get a theme that does NOT look like every other freaking Drupal site out there :) while they learn how to theme. In the absence of other tools it's a decent alternative for people still trying to learn this stuff. ________________________________ From: themes-bounces(a)drupal.org on behalf of Khalid B Sent: Fri 1/6/2006 4:16 PM To: A list for theme developers Subject: Re: [themes] Theme generator I agree it is a very strange choice. Due to the "pushy salesman/marketeer" style of writing, I suspected it was a hoax from someone promoting an unrelated site. However, you can see that the guy is an Excel guru, and hence coded the theme generator in VBA! Lots of people are on his site asking for support, making comments, ...etc. My points are: a) people will use what they know, and b) there is a dire need for this. So, referring to the other discussion on Super Theme, we might as well do something that runs in Drupal and allows changing color and maybe layout, otherwise someone will code it in IBM 360 assembler. On 1/6/06, Jason Flatt <drupal(a)oadae.net> wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 12:34, Khalid B wrote: > > Has anyone seen this? > > > > http://drupal.org/node/43525 > > http://drupal.org/node/43449 > > http://xlecom.com/?q=node/117 > > I did see the announcement come through for the upgraded version, and was > going to check it out later, when I had more available time. > > > Written in Microsoft Excel no less ... > > However, I didn't notice that part previously, and I will not bother with it > now. _______________________________________________ themes mailing list themes(a)drupal.org http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes

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UPDATE: Create a theme for a specific flexinode type
by Kieran Lal 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

This page, http://drupal.org/node/31646, has the 3rd most comments in the Drupal handbook. Could we get some volunteers to step through the 27 comments and try to extract the wisdom into an updated page. Cheers, Kieran

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So what about a super theme?
by Gunnar Langemark 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

I dream of this super theme with extensive configuration capabilities. It would be a theme AND an admin module actually, and it would work like a theme generator. You would have color-schemes, layouts, content areas etc. For instance you would have a configuration of the color-scheme or palette, which would give you a number of choices: select a predefined (ten schemes provided with the theme default), download a shared scheme (via an xml-feed?) from a theme provider site, create your own interactively (perhaps like this: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html), and perhaps then share them. (Ajax anyone?) You would have an area in which to layout blocks of content interactively by adding, dragging and dropping (colored) squares in a screen area simulating the browser window. When clicking on a square you would be prompted to ad content - a node, a node type, a taxonomy term etc. These layouts could be shared too - via xml, and there would be a few (10) presets in the default super theme, and you could run a service providing your own layout templates. There would be no practical limits to where you could put what content, and it would be possible to define areas on your site with a certain layout. Is anybody else dreaming of such a super theme? I think there could even be a business model in this? I know Drupal is capable of doing some of this. I just think all Drupal users should have a "theme generator" module, and I'd like it to be interactive and Ajax'ed somehow. Best Gunnar

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Dynamic horizontal taxonomy menu with xTemplate
by Joe Murray 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

I'm working with some graphic designers who are still coming up to speed on Drupal. We're trying to create a horizontal menu with data from a taxonomy. It's three deep. Ideally the first level would be horizontal, the second and third would be vertical, ie, the menu options drop down, and then if there is a third level it comes out and drops down again. After looking at a number of options (eg. jsdoMenu, rewriting our xTemplate them in phpTemplate, hardcoding menu, etc) we decided we would try to get Nick Lewis' phpTemplate menu (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm) working in xTemplate. Not sure this is feasible... Anyway, we've got the css stuff working but want to find a hack that would allow us to run a php snippet in the appropriate place in the template. Under the existing <tr> for the logo and primary and secondary menus we were thinking of doing something like: <tr><td colspan="2" class="topmenu">test<?php $TheMenu = theme_menu_tree(17); print $TheMenu; ?> </td></tr> Can we create a {mymenu} that would run this code snippet? Or is there a different way we can do this using xTemplate? Advice welcome. (Yeah, we should have figured out menuing before doing theme in xTemplate, but we're newbies...) Cheers, Joe Murray, PhD President, JMA Consulting 57 Grandview Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4K 1J1 416.466.1281, 416.466.1277 (f) joe.murray(a)jmaconsulting.biz Skype: josephpmurray

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Re: [themes] search bar
by Kobus Myburgh 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I fixed this by increasing the top margin for the textfield. Regards, Kobus >>> larry(a)garfieldtech.com 12/30/2005 8:18:56 PM >>> Try: #search .form-item { display: inline; } On Friday 30 December 2005 10:42 am, David K Norman wrote: > 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> -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ themes mailing list themes(a)drupal.org http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes

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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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