[themes] Dreamweaver CS3 Extension for Drupal Themeing

Fri Aug 10 04:15:34 UTC 2007

On 8/9/07, Peter Apokotos <drupal at apokotos.com> wrote:
>
> 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, sounds great.  I can help you identify some individual developers or
shops that would agree to implement a Dreamweaver plugin to  create Drupal
themes.

Let's see if we can flush out the spec on what the output of Dreaweaver is
and how it can become a Drupal theme.

Cheers,
Kieran

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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