[themes] Dreamweaver CS3 Extension for Drupal Themeing

Wed Aug 15 00:38:53 UTC 2007

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On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Steven Peck wrote:

> Any theme can make all the others go away.  However, that is really an
> advance theme issue.
>
> By far the vast majority of the Drupal admin population needs the help
> of the included starter css.  As such, those advanced enough merely
> exclude print $styles in their theme and accept they will need to
> build everything from scratch.  The rest of us can leverage the
> existing helper css quite nicely.
>
> Drupal 6 theming takes this much further.
>
> -sp
>
> On 8/10/07, Peter Apokotos <drupal at apokotos.com> wrote:
>> Pre-existing modules? If they have defined divs, classes and so on
>> then you could just adjust or add the settings to your new C.S.S.
>> with your new templates.  Of course I also think that the Drupal.css
>> file should go away and have only one style sheet for the majority of
>> items.  But I would leave the amount of style sheets to each theme
>> developer because not everyone works the same way.  I personally use
>> just one and use shorthand and compress the sheet as much as I can.
>> But I would still like to see all of the module developers use XHTML
>> 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0 (3.0 possibly) and I won't pick on them only.
>> Drupal needs it too.  Another issue I have is either create a module
>> for the <HEAD>So that I don't have to dig down in the core of Drupal
>> to add or change items</HEAD>  Or just leave the head to be changed
>> independently for each page, article, book, node and so on.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Farsheed wrote:
>>
>>> How would such an extension deal with pre-existing CSS
>>> and HTML generated by core/other modules?
>>>
>>>
>>> Farsheed
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Peter Apokotos <drupal at apokotos.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:59 AM, sime wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> Since I'm getting value out of reading this
>>>> thread, my conscience
>>>>> says I
>>>>> should mention my current project, even though
>>>> I've only used dw for a
>>>>> sum total of 3 days in my life.
>>>>>
>>>>> I plan to let dw users edit some individual page
>>>> elements with
>>>>> Dreamweaver, individual files for things like
>>>> "blocks", "left
>>>>> sidebar",
>>>>> complete with dummy content. I'm going to mark up
>>>> these files with
>>>>> locked tags. Then another process will do the
>>>> conversion into a real
>>>>> theme using these tags (the designer won't see
>>>> that). The designer
>>>>> will
>>>>> need to follow instructions to make sure things
>>>> are done right (eg.
>>>>> css
>>>>> files are correctly linked etc).
>>>>>
>>>>> It won't be a purist solution, but then again my
>>>> goals are not lofty.
>>>>> Simply allow dw designers to mess with a theme a
>>>> little, and in a
>>>>> controlled way.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the meantime, I'll keep reading this thread :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>> One of the key features of this extension would be
>>>> the comments for
>>>> each of the template files.  In the comments you
>>>> would read what php
>>>> functions you can use or what should be used.  Also
>>>> the standard CSS
>>>> things like how to wrap the text around a picture in
>>>> the content.  Or
>>>> how to assign a common photo or icon to distinguish
>>>> what category
>>>> this content falls under.  Like you would find in
>>>> the CMS Geeklog.
>>>> And that is just the beginning.  For example I use
>>>> the Well Rounded
>>>> DW extension.  Why?  Is it because I am too
>>>> lazy...no it's because
>>>> there is a tool that is drag and drop and saves me
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
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