[themes] howto for buidling a frontpage using regions

[Steven Peck]

Heine has presented an Outline to the docs list to tackle the theme dev guide and make it more up to date/usable.   It may be that this can be moved there, we'll see what happens and how it develops.  Having something in the handbook and moving it later is preferable to not having it in and people waiting ;)

-sp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: themes-bounces at drupal.org 
> [mailto:themes-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bèr Kessels
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:44 PM
> To: A list for theme developers
> Subject: Re: [themes] howto for buidling a frontpage using regions
> 
> Op dinsdag 23 mei 2006 17:13, schreef Laura Scott:
> > On May 23, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> > > FYI: Have a look here:
> > > http://drupal.org/node/65064
> > >
> > > Feel free to improve. ;)
> > >
> > > Bèr
> >
> > Nicely done! A couple of suggestions for clarity:
> >
> > * In the set-up paragraphs, make it clear that "bimbam" is the name
> > of the example theme. It's obvious to us, but newbies would benefit
> > from the extra clarity.
> >
> > * I would (re-)emphasize that "function bimbam_regions()" 
> must be re-
> > named for the designer's theme being designed. This detail 
> is missing
> > from a number of theme snippets, leading to much confusion.
> 
> Calrified that with an extra sentence.
> 
> > * The comment below notes that it's the blocks admin area, not the
> > node admin area. That's good. But the actual path to it is admin/
> > block, not admin/blocks -- not that anyone is going to paste that
> > into their browsers, but just to be dead-on.
> 
> Changed this too.
> 
> > Problematic, imho, is the placement of this page within the 
> handbook.
> 
> I put it under Howto's.
> 
> > PS - As a point of procedure, should I put the top 3 * points in a
> > comment on the page, or is responding here better. Without any page
> > editing privileges, I have no idea how else to suggest
> > changes.
> 
> For me the list is fine. After all: I mailed the list about this. 
> 
> Thanks for your time;
> Bèr 
> 
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