Garland forum theming [#214567]

This is not a request for anything, just posting info that could be useful.
If this can help anyone, following a post I put on the Drupal forum (http://drupal.org/node/214510), I found-out that the colors for the Garland forum are in:
/files/css/70ae4a451498393fe90ae56db161f3ee.css
It's a long compact file but it has the instructions for the basic Garland forum colors.
There are no lines, but about one third through the page, you can find things like:
forum td.container background color
and
forum th background color.

As far as I know, that's the only way you can tweak the forum colors using Garland with the Advanced_forum.

Comments

Comment #1

vm commented 26 January 2008 at 22:39

Garland only stores a style sheet in the files folder, when you alter the default color scheme of garland. Otherwise the style sheet is found in themes/garland.

Comment #2

roaming commented 27 January 2008 at 01:09

I'm trying to figure out the relation between the two.
I had tried first to modify the style sheet in themes/garland but couldn't get any results.
With a different theme I'm using (Newsflash), it's easy to alter the color scheme.
But with Garland, I'm obviously missing a point somewhere because that's the only way I could find that worked.
I got exactly the results I wanted, but maybe I did it the hard way...

Comment #3

vm commented 27 January 2008 at 02:42

you did it the correct way to alter the style sheet in use after you've altered the color scheme of garland.

garland defaults to a blue color scheme, this would be the stylesheet in themes/garland

once you change the color scheme using the colorwheel, drupal writes a new style sheet inside the files folder as well as the .pngs necessary for the "new" color changes.

I was merely suggesting that anyone using the default color scheme of garland, who had never altered the colors using the color picker WON't have a files/somefolder/style.css file to alter because it won't be there.

you may have also enabled the css aggregator, which could effect which stylesheet needs to be changed. css aggregation should be disabled, the original style sheet altered, then css aggregation reenabled and possibly a browser & db cache refresh is needed for the changes to take affect.

css aggregation is set in administer -> performance

css aggregation seems to be what is going on in your case.

Comment #4

roaming commented 27 January 2008 at 04:46

Yes, that's exactly what it was. css aggregation was enabled.
Actually I didn't need to change anything in Garland. I went directly to advanced_forum, which is easier than Garland because it's all forum-specific, and the changes worked.
Beforehand, I was tweaking partly with Newsflash and partly with advanced_forum and I couldn't figure out why when I switched to Garland nothing worked anymore, but it's because I had changed the aggregation settings in-between.
Now everything works again (a page reload was sufficient for the changes to take effect after re-enabling css aggregator).

Thanks a lot.