theming

Hi All,

I really enjoyed the last meet up on the topic of themes, thank you for the wonderful discussions. Since then I realized that I have had another pertinent question regarding theming with rollover and active menu images. I am using the image menu module to create rollovers for my primary navigation. Any ideas on how to have a page in a site represented by an active state button? Attached is an image of what I am trying to achieve.

Much thanks,

D

Over at AdaptiveThemes we've been hammering out how to give our designers better tools for designing for Drupal. At first we thought about a set of briefs, then that grew into packages (brief + stock images, logo etc) and then I struck on the idea of Design Profiles.

A Design Profile is a package including a sample site (say a blog, business site, Ubercart site etc), PSD templates, a detailed brief and stock images (sample logo, photos etc).

I run a group of tech entrepreneurs called Ultra Light Startups (http://ultralightstartups.com/) and I'm interested in the use of Drupal in startups for several reasons. Many of our members' startups are either already built on Drupal or they are evaluating use of Drupal for a project. Several of our members are also active in the NYC Drupal community. Also, after hosting an event on Open Source CMS's last fall, I became convinced that Drupal was the right platform for several of my own projects, including a planned major upgrade to the Ultra Light Startups site.

I would like to collaborate with other Drupal theme designers. I am writing a specifications document for a Drupal 5.x theme. What types of design items do you include in your theme design projects? I am starting with this:

A. Custom Graphical User Interface Design

1. Website layout - Custom Drupal theme including graphical header and footer and navigation menus that appear on every page. Blocks for Staying Connected, Sign up for Updates, and Register and Sponsors will also be themed. Global styling for H1, H2 tags, main content text is also included.

I am having a problem with the header of this website: http://primary-sources.eui.eu/. Except for the 3 small logo's the whole header should be clickable and direct to the frontpage.

It is clickable in Firefox but not Safari (except for the 3 logo's that I have defined in page.tpl.php). This worked until recently also in Safari and I have no idea what is going on. Would anybody know how to make the header clickable again? I assume I need to adjust something in page.tpl.php?

Thanks and best,
Gerben

As you might have noticed, there's a new 2.x-dev branch out of Acquia Marina that includes layouts and styles for Panels 3 among other things: http://drupal.org/node/472094

We'd particularly love to hear from anyone who has tried out this new feature.

For those in the Bay Area who are interested in this topic, we'll be discussing Panels 3 theming at BADCamp this Saturday afternoon: http://badcamp.net/session/theming-panels-3

Hi all,
I've been trying to design my own theme. Can anybody recommend a basic guide to theming on Drupal 6 - the more basic the better. Idiot proof is best. Any suggestions welcome.
Cheers,
Damian

Basically we have a registration page on our site for a van shuttle that runs at several different times. A person can go to this form and select the time for the shuttle along with some other options. These are stored in a separate table (called shuttle), but I need to make a nice admin interface for this. I want something along the lines of the user admin page that has a table with the information in rows and checkboxes down the side. There also needs to be a drop-down with actions in it (i know how to do that).

Theming a node in the node.tpl.php only gives you to options, full page view or teaser! What do you do, if you want to theme the same node in several different ways depending on what region the node is shown in?

The thing I'm trying to do is, to have a node (an article) be a top story in the "Top story" region one day, and another story in another region the other. That is, I want to be able to theme a node differently depending on region.

I would like to do it in node.tpl.php, but as I see it, there are no variables available in a node that can tell you what region the node is in.