[Cialug] OT: CSS Help

[Matthew Nuzum]

Here are some tops I suggest for doing great things w/ drupal themes:
1.  Start w/ a base theme.  On my main site I use ninesixty.  It is a very
bland theme that only sets the base styles.  Zen is another popular choice.
2.  Build your design in a graphical app (I use inkscape but Gimp or
PhotoShop are also common),  then move to html then make it a theme.  This
gives you far cleaner code and you just add the features you like.  If you
use a base theme you may want to take a screenshot of it and use it as the
background / onionskin for your design.
3.  Professional drupal development by Jon vandyk is a great book. Also
check out the developer extension for drupal which has a theme developer
mode.  You turn it on and it gives your site a firebug like overlay that
helps you figure out how to set up your PHP/theme files to get some really
awesome customizations. I have a 35% off coupon if you like,  but the price
on Amazon is already discounted so just get it there.

Matthew Nuzum
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On Nov 3, 2009 7:45 PM, <lister at kulish.com> wrote:

First, thanks all for the firebug tip.  That thing works GREAT!

A special thanks to Kenneth for the direct tips.

At this point it's mostly fixed up.  At least everything is usable.
Only issue is still with the story/blog post preview.  Getting some white
fields still.  It's ugly but functional.  The main body of the preview
has the correct background color now.

I've been keeping notes on what I changed and why in case there are
unintended consequences.

Main site: http://tech.kulish.com/
Problem list: http://tech.kulish.com/content/d4rk-theme-issues

Thanks again for all the suggestions!

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:55:12 -0600, Kenneth Younger <kyounger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Firebug is a terrific suggestion - here is how I personally would fix it
if > I were you. > > cha...

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