Posted by ggevalt on December 11, 2009 at 7:48pm
Have just created a site using acquia_slate: http://annarobertsgevalt.com
I am impressed with the quality of the theme, particularly the depth and detail of the css. In playing with the theme I was also interested to see how it forced me to think about the site in a different way, to define the site and it's work in a succinct, visual way. Almost like appearance forcing substance as it were.
Here are a few minor snags we ran into that we'd love some help with:
- In using the theme with Organic Groups we discovered that the Group content type defines the body in the node as "Mission Statement" and I think this phrasing activates a code command somewhere to set a certain spacing and type size (for the photo on the front page) that comes out in the group node and looks whacky. The workaround was to have no content in the Group content node.
- There are a few hinky things that happen with its integration with fckeditor. The teaser break line prompts it to generate a new copy of the tease upon each edit. When you delete the teaser break line this behavior stops. As I have not run into this with fckeditor using other themes, I am presuming there is a causal relationship with acquia_slate.
- In trying to set up a mini-banner for all pages other than the front (in the content_top region), we discovered that there is a call within the theme tpl and the css for a single *-header.jpg file ... We would love to have a different mini banner for each of the site's sections to help visually define each section. Is there a way to have separate header.jpg files for each section? How does one code that? Or is it a css modification?
- We are going to set up some links to your organization as part of our eventual "About" section so appreciated our ability to delete the links at the bottom of the page.
- We look forward to looking how we can adjust colors, logo treatment and backgrounds within the local.css setup so we can test this in our main student site and a multi-site configuration we have created for schools.
We really appreciate the theme and thanks for your trouble. If you have any ideas about the minor matters outlined above, they'd be appreciated.
geoff gevalt
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Looks good so far. Keep up
Looks good so far. Keep up the good work!
Chris
annarobertsgevalt.com
Geoff,
I presume that you've conquered the hinky stuff by now, because annarobertsgevalt.com looks great. I just started an acquia_slate site at 3c58.com, but it's nowhere near as nice looking as yours. Maybe I'm just depreciating the theme's elegance by letting some of the air out between DOM elements.
I'm not deliberately moving the menus down and to the left - I have Menu and Nice Menus installed, but even when they're disabled the nav. menus don't go back to the location they're in on your site and the demo screen shot (a quandary).
I reduced padding in the header so the logo image would be the same size as the header, but doing so messed up the vertical centering of the Mission and Slogan (and it's not obvious how to restore them without restoring the whitespace too. My search box IS enabled, but doesn't show due to having monkeyed with the spacing. Once in a while, tinkering with CSS spacing, the it will reappear - I have to figure out how to make that happen all the time. Clearly, acquia_slate doesn't particularly like having whitespace in the header reduced to zero.
I suppressed the submitted date when the node->type is 'page' or 'book', so admin authored pages don't look like posts - got that one right.
I started out putting CSS overrides into local.css (with local.css activated in acquia_slate.info), but firefox was ignoring the overrides, so I've been modifying style.css directly. I would have expected something like that from IE, but thought FF would be up to speed.
Mike