[themes] Dreamweaver CS3 Extension for Drupal Themeing

[Peter Apokotos]

The oversight of the project I will happily do. And define the  
feature set that would be needed in the extension.  But since I am  
not a Dreamweaver coder I won't be a help there.

Peter


On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

>
>
> On 8/8/07, Ram Dak <ramdak5000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks, I was just offering to help gather requirements and get the  
> chipin widget going.  I think I would leave it to Peter and others  
> to identify capable developers to complete the extension.
>
> 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 don't think we are talking about individual templates.  I think  
> we are talking about something that magically takes DreamWeaver  
> output and converts it into a Drupal theme.  Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> 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?
>
> Not in Drupal.  While some people believe there should be  
> proprietary Drupal modules, there are not accepted by the Drupal  
> community to be distributed.  You'll get nasty mail defending  
> Drupal's GPL and opinions that is covers distributing compatible  
> modules as well.  Joomla has recently taken this stance as well.
>
> 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.
>
> Ok, well helping us with requirements would be a significant  
> contribution.
>
> Kieran
>
>
> 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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