[documentation] PLEASE REVIEW: Customizing themes for node types, terms, sections, paths, and front page

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, all,

First, the small things -- the "elseif" statements in the 2nd and 3rd 
code snippets have typos -- it currently reads "elsif" in the second, 
and "elsef" in the third.

Second, I agree with Charlie -- I recommend breaking this page into 
three distinct pages:
1. Calling a different tpl.php file based on node type or location;
2. Calling a different style sheet based on node type or location;
3. Adding specific css classes based on node type or location.

As the page is currently written, the code in section 1 (the section 
beginning "Apply a specific template such") needs (IMO) more thorough 
explanation -- While I am not a programmer, I can fumble my way through 
a php snippet -- the one thing that prevents me from making use of this 
section is that I don't know what the $section variable refers to, or 
how/where to put the css that would get read as a result of that code -- 
should it be in a new .css file, or included in the existing style.css? 
I realize that my lack of understanding probably has more to do with my 
lack of PHP knowledge than anything else, but, my shortcomings 
notwithstanding, I think the section could use more detailed explanation 
about how to fit the different pieces together.

The last section ends with the lines: "When viewing the root node this 
may produce empty class attribute values -- including a constant prefix 
to the class would prevent this. Finally we must be sure to that there 
shouldn't be a line break before the DOCTYPE declaration, so you should 
immediately follow both examples with the doctype line."

I recommend showing an example that illustrates these caveats, and 
explaining why this example demonstrates best practice.

It also seems that there is some overlap between the page Kieran edited 
(http://drupal.org/node/23348) and this page: http://drupal.org/node/45944

Cheers,

Bill


Charlie Lowe wrote:

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> Kieran Lal wrote:
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>> http://drupal.org/node/23348
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>> Hi, I have reviewed the 21 comments on Customizing your home page and 
>> re-written it as a much longer page.  Dublin Drupaller has pointed 
>> out that he would prefer a shorter page.
>>
>> Comments and feedback welcome.
>
>
> Couldn't this page be broken up into subtasks so that it could be 
> multiple pages? That might work.
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