This is a special interest group dedicated to improving and expanding the Drupal theme system including theme functions and templates, CSS, markup, and how contrib modules add in their functions, CSS, and markup.
for example, we'll take stock of the location and number of CSS files and discuss if the architecture can be improved through emerging frameworks like Object Oriented CSS.
We will consider the questions "What do themers need from Core in terms of CSS? Module developers? SEO specialists?" and "What's new in CSS? What does Drupal support? What's the roadmap for CSS support?"
GPL group recommends CMS templates be licensed under a different license.
Read more... but templates are a special case, because they are combined with data provided by users of the application and the combination is distributed. So, we recommend that you license your templates under simple permissive terms.
_ --- "Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses" www.gnu.org
Themes versus Modules
There has been much discussion through the years about the automatic GPL status of Themes and Modules, and I will weigh in on that topic itself in another post (see the bottom of this post). But for now suffice it to say that I see an argument in favor of requiring GPL for Modules but I see a very different and very compelling argument in favor of excluding Themes from the GPL mandate. This post is to address a pre-cursor to that argument ...
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Workshop: Drupal 7 Site Building Extravaganza
Earlier this year I asked my mailing list what they needed help with when it came to theming Drupal. Although every answer was unique, the most common frustration boiled down to, "I just don't get it. I don't understand the big picture. It's chaotic and it makes me feel stupid." ... It's as if Drupal was some kind of dangerous monster that kills kittens for fun. Drupal is powerful, no doubt, but only if you know how make it do what you want.
Read moreConverting Wordpress themes to Drupal
I love Drupal, but some of its themes need work, but then again that has not been its focus. Its focus has been great code, which I love! There are wordpress sites I was thinking about converting, but wanted to know if someone else has already done them. Here they are: LightWord, Mystique, Easel, Sliding Door, Station, Antisnews, StudioPress, Glossy Stylo, MT dark
Read moreCache Clearing Question.
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to clear the cache automatically when someone saves theme settings? I am not so hot at drupal yet, but is there a hook that is fired off when theme settings are saved? Can a function be run then to automatically clear the cache? Thanks!
Annoucing Peroxide, a theme engine using Haml templates and Sass stylesheets
Hey Everyone,
May I introduce you to Peroxide an in-development Drupal theme engine that uses Haml as a templating language and can use Sass stylesheets. Peroxide's goal is to make themes faster and easier to create, and to make them more maintainable over time. Haml and Sass both present nice abstractions and tools to make working with templates and stylesheets respectively much easier. Peroxide is also bundled with the compass styling framework which makes it extremely easy to import existing CSS frameworks including Blueprint, CSS resets, CSS3 compatibility tools, and more into your theme.
Need help adding body classes to Danland subtheme
I am still relatively new to Drupal, with barely 12 months of experience. I built my first site on a subtheme of Zen (using the ProsePoint profile), which came with lots of body classes that allowed me to define CSS classes for pages and nodes based on content type and taxonomy, since there were body classes like "node-type-story" and "section-news".
Now I'm working on a new site using a custom subtheme of Danland ... which does not include these great content-type and taxonomy body classes.
Read moreNew Comment/Reply Comment Page CSS
Hi everybody,
I am relatively new to Drupal. I am trying to theme the "create comment" or "reply to comment" pages of my website, but can't seem to manage this. There doesn't seem to be any CSS class for these pages as a whole. I need a class which comes before all other ones, just after HTML. Optimally I would like to create a CSS class that is in the BODY which applies to all of the reply and add comment pages.
To better help everyone understand which pages I am talking about, here are the example URL's of them:
http://example.com/comment/reply/4/2
Views Theming
How do I theme a particular view. I want to remove the submitted by on a particular view, but still keep submitted by on the conetnt type.
Read moreExposed filters view by date
I am designing a webpage where I have created cck fields and one is by date. I have exposed the date field so people can search by date, but it seems not to be working. Why is that? What do I have to do to make it work?
Read moreStyling just view blocks
I would like to just style all my view blocks a certain way how can I do that? Any advice
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Problem mit drupal 7 & webform bei einer zwischenauswertung einer multipage-form
Folgendes Problemchen habe ich mit Webform: ich komme nicht an die eingegeben Werte ran.
Ich habe eine Multipage-Form und möchte die Eingaben der ersten Seite auf der zweiten Seite ausgeben und das z.B. als Summenberechnung.
In diesem Falle den Wert aus mehreren Select-Feldern (1-9) den ich mit einem anderen Wert multipliziere und am Schluß eine Summe bilden möchte.
Hier eine Abbildung der Form (Frontend & Backend): http://drupal.org/files/issues/2011.11.17_webform1.png
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Needs for FREE and professional looking themes for drupal
Drupal is lacking pro looking themes. And community need to provide it to take on WP head-on.
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Making money using Template Framework or Base Theme for Drupal
Drupal Theme clubs are starting now to get traction. Coming from Wordpress or Joomla they have matured as efficient theme development companies and offer great support for members. Following the discussion of how much a premium drupal theme costs or how to make a theme club http://groups.drupal.org/node/8186 I think the answer is to develop an efficient Theme Development Framework. Without this, you cannot charge as low as 200$ for a Drupal theme, even if all PSD files are existing.
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Looking for reviewers for Adaptivetheme for Drupal 7
Hi peeps - I'm looking for anyone who might stick their hand up and volunteer to help review the Drupal 7 version of Adaptivetheme - I really want this to be the most accessible version of the theme ever and I need some help and feedback from real users.
There are a couple of areas I need to hone in on:
- Structure (sectioning and headings).
- Custom theme settings forms.
Need a themer who wants to get in from the ground up
We have a gaming site that has been around 4 years called MMO News. Changing gears, going for the big boys and gaining some interest. But, broke.
You can email me at sylassa@gmail.com
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Drupal Design Camp Prague
You heard the Rumors and yes they are true!
Following up on the 2 successful D4D events in Boston. Were now going to Europe, in the beautiful city of Prague.
The event is a 2 day full of Theming, Design, Frontend, UX sessions & Workshops.
This event for anyone new & advanced in the Drupal world who haves an interest in the Front end of drupal.
So dont expect a 2 hours sessions about database abstraction. But heated discussions about css, markup, design & everyting else that makes Drupal Sites look wonderful
signup & Tickets:
Read moreTo info or not to info, that is the question
What am I talking about?
I'm talking about a rather contentious debate over whether or not we should have stuff in the info file that does stuff, such as making a themers life easier, and not forcing them to learn advanced PHP, for example...
Allow a theme to set itself as an admin or frontend theme exclusively
Conditional Styles in .info files, since drupal_add_css has it
Overridden module stylesheets are loaded unconditionally
Is there a better way of adding shadows to boxes, without hacking template files?
This may be more a CSS question than purely a Drupal one, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle adding shadows to the bottom of containers using CSS. The method I'm currently using is by adding divs to the outside of a container (say a div at the bottom of the container div in the node-blog.tpl file), giving it a height and adding my background image. This is how I normally handle this particular type of shadow when creating static pages, but I wasn't sure if this was the best route to take when developing pages in Drupal.
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