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I'm building my first Drupal website (http://www.district-a-development.com/) with Acquia Slate for a local base artist community group. Two changes I'd like to implement involve 1. front preface sidebar along with the banner image on which the mission statement is placed and 2. the left navigation menu.

Due to site testing tools suggested in another post there are now two topics I'm chasing too improve load times. I am so easily sidetracked when discovering things like this.

I was very happy with my sites performance improvements after learning about mod_deflate in Apache and now this. My personality flaw is akin to a dog on a bone and until I lose the bone it's all I think of.

First suggestion from the test was use a CDN. This is easy enough; throw money around and problem solved.

Hello,

I am hoping someone can help me with my problem. I think it may be simple, yet I just don't have the knowledge or experience to accomplish it. Basically I have an image I'm using for the front page sidebar that I like, and it looks good with the standard header image. Before I started using it however, I used my own header image which I really liked. I'd keep on using it but it doesn't look good with the front page image.

What I'd like to do is use MY header image on every other page of the site except the front page. Can someone please help me accomplish this? Thanks

Amy Cham (@amycham) posted this over in Drupalchix and I thought it was a good thing for the TNT group to be aware of, especially if like me you're using Acquia Marina.

Hi, all!

I've been working with Acquia Slate for a little while now (I just finished mildly hacking it for a friend's website at http://www.siphiwe.com) and am looking to do so again for a site of my own (the site at YoungWizards.com is due for an updating and upgrade).

One change I'd like to implement involves the block headers. I've just installed the Signwriter module on my pre-production installation, and it works perfectly well with the node headers in Slate. But it breaks when it hits the block headers, as described here. As a result, I'd like to get rid of the whole business that splits the h2 tag so that Signwriter can't parse it correctly.

Please find attached the Acquia Slate Photoshop mockups.

Because of file upload restrictions, you will need to rename the attached files to .zip (removing the "_.txt" from the filename)

Hi all!

I have seen many of your sites using the acquia slate theme and am quite impressed. I can only home soon that mine will look so impressive. especially on the site Cornerstone Gospel.

Thanks!

~Kyle

Please please please! I have zero training in css and have learned the hard way (many hours trying to modify .css file) that makiing this theme even a little bit fluid is problematic. My site really needs this functionality. I know that when using 1, 2, or 3, columns things have to match the header content wrap width in order for things to line up, but how would one break that? Say, I don't care if the sidebar left and right don't match the white header.jpg but I want the sidebars fixed and the middle content fluid to the screen.

Hi Everyone!

I am a newbie in web design, new to Acquia Slate and am very excited to have found this group. Hoping to manipulate some blocks such as the login block. I would like to place it on header-top but throw it on the right-hand side and without the Open-ID option. Basically, I want it to look much like it does on the showcased site Cornerstone Gospel Church.

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