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Developing themes for small websites
How far do you go with developing themes for simple site with a couple of pages?
I usually only import HTML and CSS files into Drupal tpl system and add those mandatory variables in page.tpl.php and node.tpl.php. I never edit CSS for admin pages (e.g. posting/editing node forms, tables, ...), because I use admin theme like Root candy and Administration theme with them I can make other pages like "/users/*" and "/user" to use admin theme as well.
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Lets fold this group into the design for drupal group?
No real activity for months. Any objections? Otherwise I'll move the content in here over to design for drupal group in 2 weeks.
Edit: This post was originally in the 'icons for Drupal' group, contents of which (not much) is now part of Design for Drupal
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Politika Theme: Help design a free GPL Drupal theme
Hello theme designers/developers/users.
I would like to ask if anyone is interested in contributing to discussions about a new free Drupal theme. It is similar to some projects for getting new themes in core but instead of a community-designed theme directly for core (like Bartik) I think it would be better to just have it in contrib.
If you are interested please check out this blog post: http://www.sooperthemes.com/drupal-blog/project-politika-help-design-fre...
Thanks!
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@font-your-face
I recently made a Drupal module for previewing and enabling fonts in Drupal: @font-your-face and would love to hear feedback from designers. My goal is to make it as easy as possible to use fonts in Drupal.
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Drupal Dojo sessions: Sustainable Theming with Fusion
Don't theme yourself into a corner. We built Fusion after years of feedback from designers, site builders, clients, and developers. It's a powerful and supported base theme, with layout and style configuration options built in that you (or your clients) can control through Drupal's UI using the Skinr module. Based on a simplified 960px or fluid 12 or 16-column grid, you can easily define your own custom grid if needed.
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Drupal Design Camp needs newbie sessions too. Good opp for developers to mix in.
Hi Local Groups,
We are getting great design-related sessions submitted but there's a need for basic Drupal sessions so newbies know what the heck we are talking about. Like intro to Drupal, CCK, views, terminology, ect. Remember when we started out? That kind of stuff.
http://boston2010.design4drupal.org/schedule/sessions
Thanks for your help!
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Classing elements in stylesheets, a Drupal habit?
As I get more familiar with the coding habits of Drupalists, I'm noticing that there's a preponderance of classed elements in the stylesheets in core. Example:
ul.primary { ... }This code is in system.css on line 183 (D7).
Is this the preferred style of module developers? I would prefer to see something like
.tab .primary { ... }instead. It provides more semantic scope. Any other opinions on this? Is there a reason the styles are declared this way that I perhaps just don't know about yet?
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Themer Workshops Starting in May
It's time for the next round of Design to Theme workshops. The topics covered in these workshops solve the hotspots of frustration for designers and novice themers:
- Design to Theme -- learn how to convert a "Photoshop" file to a Drupal theme. Photoshop not required. Sample screenshots will use the free software tool GiMP. Starts May 11.
- Advanced Layout Techniques -- if you've never want to write another line of PHP and you want to deploy advanced layouts for your themes this course is designed for you. Starts May 12.
CSS Preprocessors
Anyone using CSS preprocessors? They're pretty awesome. My coworker Joel recently wrote a blog post about how great LESS CSS is, and I just threw up a quick comparison chart of the alternatives, but that may be a little biased toward LESS, since that's what we've been using. It would be great to hear about everyone else's experiences and fill out that chart a bit.
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Why Designers don't collaborate like Developers
I had an ephiphany at Drupalcon SF. I realized the reasons designers and project managers haven't devloped the same online collaboartion techniques as developers is because of the lack of a feedback loop.
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