[themes] Dreamweaver CS3 Extension for Drupal Themeing

[Ram Dak]

I joined this list only because I saw this thread. Not that I am a drupal wizard running a 1000 sites, but it immediately struck a chord.

Like many other people, I have found creating a drupal template intimidating, but I can handle Dreamweaver reasonably well. In fact, at one point of time last year, I was ready to dump drupal in frustration, so I went looking for and purchased Project Seven's dreamweaver template extensions. They come with superb guides that tell you how to customize them. All I had to do was to learn a bit of Fireworks to customize the images in the templates and I was immediately more productive than I had ever been with drupal.Today, even a charity doesn't want a plain looking site, despite all the power that drupal has under the hood.

I think  the only people capable of taking this project and seeing this through are CivicSpace. I also think that the $3k is too steep- for example, the Project Seven templates are not more than $90 and they are truly terrific. Of course, the end price doesn't reflect the development costs, so the point is moot. 

I personally think that if the module is made available as a commercial module, designers familiar with DW and looking to bridge the gap would really make a beeline for it. Is there space within the drupal ecosystem for such commercial offerings?

I don't know if I will be in a position to donate to the project, but I just wanted to voice my strong support for such a project.

Thanks,
venkat-rk on drupal.org



Peter Apokotos <drupal at apokotos.com> wrote: 
On Aug 7, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:

 There is a lot more to Dreamweaver than the wysiwyg aspect. it is very handy when working with complex cascades like those that can occur in Drupal.
  
 That said, I still don't get what Peter is looking for here.
  
 Cary






I just want a tool that will be kept up to date with Drupals' theme and CSS requirements so I don't have to redundantly create the basic files for each tpl file.
With being disabled it is very hard for me to keep focus on what I am doing and because of the pain I am in I often make mistakes.  Before the accident I could make drupal phptemplates fine.
But why go through the hassle if a tool can be made for Dreamweaver that will give me more time writing material than making templates for my 180+ domain names?  And on top of that I am the type of person that may change a template one day or week to week.  I get bored easily.


Peter



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