[themes] some questions about themes

[Gabriele Giorelli]

Thanks Bert.

I still would like to know then what are the best practices to "migrate the
content":

1. from a traditional site to a drupal theme
2. from one drupal theme to another?

Will it be a manual migration (Take each block, menu, and create it again
for example?)

In fact, when I searched for some hosting companies, they offered a service
called migration so I wondered whether this is an automatic procedure for
this.

Thank you for clarifying these 2 points to me.

Cheers.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Bert Van Kets <mailing at vankets.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> 1. The Picture Reloaded theme allows for a LOT of customizing in regard of
> colors.
> http://drupal.org/project/pixture_reloaded
> There are others, look around in http://drupal.org/project/themes
> The amount of customizing depends on the amount of configuration
> parameters that are defined and implemented by the themer and the amount of
> energy he/she wanted to put into the development of the interface. Most of
> the time a theme is created for a particular use, so customizing is not
> required.
>
> 2. A theme not only defines the colors and images, but also the structure
> of the site. A theme can override every bit of HTML that is rendered by
> every module in Drupal. Theming in Drupal is ultra flexible and your pre
> requisite that the structure of the site should not change is totally
> contradictory to that.
>
> 3. Sub themes override theme structures and functions of the main theme.
> So you start by a master theme and gradually override parts until you get
> what you want.
> You can not mix two themes like you describe it. A Zen theme can never be
> a part of a Garland theme. You can start from a Garland theme and copy a
> part of a Zen theme over.
> If you want to venture into this kind of theming, you have a lot of
> reading and testing to do. It's not basic stuff where you can just copy
> some files and expect it to work. You need to know more about the inner
> workings and may not be afraid to get your hand dirty with PHP code.
>
> Bert
>
> P.S. If you need theming help, let me know.
>
>
> On 16/12/2011 9:45, Gabriele Giorelli wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Is there a theme that is configurable and customizable? Let me tell you
> the background of my question: I want to let users customize their view
> like gmail does.
>
> My 2nd question is about changing themes. Whenever I change the theme, I
> lose all the dimensions of the frames and menus. I don't know how themes
> were developed in drupal, but changing from 1 theme to another should not
> ideally hurt the look of the site.
>
> And my 3rd question is about sub-theme. I keep seeing this term especially
> in Zen theme. Does it mean I can run a Garland theme and inside it I can
> define a Zen theme for a view? OR does it mean I can create a new theme out
> of the parent theme that is always Zen theme?
>
> thank you for clarifying these 3 points.
>
> best regards,
>
>
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