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.
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From: themes-bounces@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@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.
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