By Paris_WebGurl on

I'm new at this got tired of getting ripped by designers and thought I would learn myself.I have a site I'm trying to revamp to a corporate image as well as installing a gallery page/E-commerce page.Trying to tighten my members login as well.

I would later like to add streaming video or video media page.

Can anyone welcome me to the forum with some help please. The site is :
www.TheParisFirm.com

Paris "WebGurl"

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vm’s picture

vm commented

your post is not clear on what exactly you want help with. If the design, you will want to begin to learn CSS. Without a specific question being asked, its difficult to assume what you are looking to do to change the site.

either way : ) Welcome to Drupal!

dsnoeck’s picture

dsnoeck commented

Hi and welcome,

There are 4 majors steps to follow to create you own theme, sorted by priority. But fisrt, you have to copy a existing theme to work on it. For example, copy the folder \themes\bluemarine to \sites\all\themes\ and rename the bluemarine directory with your corporate name or whatever. I chose the bluemarine theme because it's more easy to modify than the garland.

I also recommend you to use firefox with the web developer Toolbar and the Firebug plugin (click on the inspect button to view the css code for each element of the page, impressive !)

    - Modify the css stylesheet (You can do that directly on firebug before add changes on your style.css file)
    - Change the ...tpl.php files (For now, I just needed to modify the page.tpl.php file in adding some
    and moving existing
      - Define function theme in you template.php (Search existing function to adapt on api.drupal.org)
      - Intercept variables with _phptemplate_variables() function (add this function in the template.php file)

    With the 1st and the 2nd points, you will be able to add a lot of changes.

    With the function theme, you can also add all your function in a theme.inc file and include this functions by writing :
    $path = drupal_get_path('module', 'myFunction');
    require_once("./$path/theme.inc")

    I'm not exactly sure of that and never have used it.

    Cheers,
    Damien
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    Keep Open Spirit

- Damien
:: Keep Open Spirit ::

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Paris_WebGurl commented

www.TheParisFirm.com

I have done just about every thing I needed done.The css book was a big help.However I can not find away to use acidfree to create a ten cell gallery template for the site.

One that allows me to hyperlink a thumbnail to a five picture(cell) gallery template (layout) from each of the ten cells with (Bio) text for each. Allowing a hyperlink to be placed routed to another Url.

If. you could help with this I would appreciate all.

Heres a temp login and pass LOGIN : BizWiz PASS : moneygirl So you can take a peek. Theres also a picture of me there fro your viewing.

Please oh please help with this last step. I have a new found respect for webdesigners and code writers.

Kisses Paris

dsnoeck’s picture

dsnoeck commented

Hello

Sorry, I never used acidfree or other module to display images. One things you can do is to see here: http://drupal.org/project/issues/acidfree
for feature request, open issues, ...

Or search for other image galleries modules.

Cheers,
Damien
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Keep Open Spirit

- Damien
:: Keep Open Spirit ::

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dsnoeck commented

You can also have a look to this page to create your own gallery. More complex, but more flexible.
http://drupal.org/node/144725

Damien

- Damien
:: Keep Open Spirit ::