Bitten by the CSS Bug
Posted 1 year ago
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So I couldn't sleep last night. What did I do? I went to Free CSS Templates and downloaded a CC 2.5 CSS skin. And I made a new Drupal 6 theme. This is easy enough that it could turn into a habit...
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| thegreenhouse.zip | 68.27 KB |
Question...
The question is: "does it help to sleep ?" :-)
freecssthemes website gone missing?
The link you provide goes to freecssthemes.com, but that site now displays a domain name registrar's standard page. Too bad.
Hint
I think the correct link is http://www.freecsstemplates.org
Whoops, thanks!
I've fixed the link in my post. :)
How long did it take you to
How long did it take you to do it? and how much would have it taken in drupal 5? And what keeps you awake now days?! ;)
About two hours...
It took me around two hours to put it together, but there are a lot of loose ends and unfinished bits that would need to be cleaned up for production use. If I'd been willing to use some actual tpl.php files (to move breadcrumbs around, or things like that) it would've been a bit easier as well. I'm just trying to stick to the 'CSS Only' exercise to see what things could be made easier for designers.
The same kind of system can be made to work in D5 by writing a theme (or a theme engine) that provides a consistent base XHTML framework ad eliminates Drupal's ugly core menu-related styles. It's just not quite as clean and smooth as 6, and there's not an easy way to 'transition' that kind of D5 theme into something more robuse (with tpl files and so on) as needs become more advanced.
Can you link to the original ?
Hi
I have searched the site there for the theme and could not find it, can you please provide a link of the original theme ?
Can you tell what is need to create drupal theme ?
The original URL is
The original URL is http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/thegreenhouse -- I realized that I misnamed it 'SnowCrystals' in the screenshot itself, instead of The Greenhouse. I'll have to update that.
In Drupal 6, all I needed to do was create an .info file and alter the CSS to point to the classes and markup in the standard drupal XHTML.
Keep on rockin' in the free world
I guess you've not realized that theme overriding could be a huge improve on the Drupal world, one that every designer have always been waiting for.
I got bugs in my room...one on one
Corrections
Sorry, but my English needs to improve, what I wanted to say is that:
I guess you have realized that css overriding could be a huge improvement on the Drupal world, one that every designer have always been waiting for.
And I thank you for making it possible. :)
Duplication of effort?
It's a shame that this greenhouse theme was already ported to Drupal by Jason Swaby:
http://drupal.org/project/greenhouse
Not too worried
...I'm not too worried about it, honestly. My version has rough edges from the lack of tpl.php overrides, and his version has some layout differences that were needed by his client.
My purpose at the moment isn't so much to produce themes everyone will want, but to experiment and flush out any problems in the theming system and our standard XHTML. :)
It would be great if you
It would be great if you could help me out with some Drupal 6 theming here: http://drupal.org/node/207393
drupal CMS
hmm... looking for a good CMS to use now for a site I'm developing (it's my first real site I'm developing for a client) and maybe I should really consider Drupal. It appears to be a lot more flexible than the other things out there... although, I am thinking of using Wordpress. This post has really put some thoughts in my head...
Yes work with Wordpress it is
Yes work with Wordpress it is very entertaining, presence of a considerable quantity of plug-ins do its very flexible.
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