[themes] some questions about themes

[Bert Van Kets]

When moving form a straight up html site you will need to copy the 
content page by page as there is no application that can decide where 
the content is. Besides, you will most likely need to make some styling 
changes.
Another reason is that you need to hook up the pages in the menu.

When changing a theme, you just select the new theme in admin. There is 
no need for content changes.
The only thing that might be needed is if you added specific theme 
dependent styling in the content. Then you will have to put those styles 
in a separate css file, copy that file to the new theme and define it in 
the .info file. Info files are found in the root of the theme directory 
and contain theme specific configurations. Check on out, it's pretty easy.

The migration you are referring to is probably just a migration of a 
site from one provider to another without any change to the content. 
Generally that means copying the files, dump the database and restore 
the database.

Bert


On 22/12/2011 9:08, Gabriele Giorelli wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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