Making pixture tableless

Why not submit a patch to make this table less. We would love that patch.

I'll second and third the request for a tableless layout. I absolutely love the Pixture and Twilight themes except for the tables. I think I read too many 'web standards' books and now I get the shakes when I think of table based layouts :)

I don't quite have the mad CSS skillz that eigentor does but I would be happy to help test anything and contribute what I can. I'm really hoping to use a modified version of the Pixture theme on the new site for the school district I work for. Each school will have it's own site.. all using the Pixture theme but using the 'school colors'.

I'll beg and plead if I have to!

Great job regardless. eigentor is right.. it is a beautiful theme.

@eigentor want some help with this? Do you have CVS access? I have a Drupal CVS account.

Wondering if we should make a new project rather than changing the current pixture theme?

I spoke to Hideki about it and he's all for it, since I had planned do this when I had the time, however I don't want to start a duplicate project now that you have something going.

Hence CVS and starting a seperate project.

I suppose we could branch head and run two seperate releases, although that could get confusing for everyone. I'm not so much in favour of just committing to head and moving pixture to table-less layout as an "upgraded version" since users may have chosen pixture because it is built with tables, for what-ever reasons.

FYI I have a working version of a pixture css theme - I used Zens holy grail layout and so far so good, needs some polish.

-1 for girly pink being default.

Yea, the branch is a bad idea, agreed.

Give me a couple days, I'm travelling at the moment, will be back home over the weekend some time.

I cant remember how I did the color stuff, it was a while back, I don't think I used sliding doors, I need to go a quick port to 6 also, which is no biggie.

I'm home early, I just looked at what I have done, and yes I have modified much of the color.inc coordinates and built new base images.

I used zens liquid-layout but slightly modified to accommodate wider sidebars and blocks (220px). I think this is a good layout since its a holy grail type which is essentially what pixture is (albeit with tables...).

I'll get it ported to 6 and stick it in the CVS. I fired it up on D5 and it actually looks pretty good, although needs a lot of spit and polish, but in essence the layout is rock solid, including the width setting, and most of the images are copying over and working just fine (I didn't do all of them).

Certainly the header, logo, blocks and footer look great.

Here is my first draft (on my testing server) http://drupalstaging.com/pixture2/

In the end I just rebuilt the whole lot on all shiny and new D6 versions of Pixture, and using D6 zen liquid-layout, which is rock solid.

I have only done the basic layout and color stuff (mostly), but not styled the nodes etc - so it all looks a bit ragged. Few issues here and there but no real show stoppers, nothing that a couple of hours at the keyboard wont mop up.

The theme-settings are ported also, so the width can be adjusted as per normal, you'll notice I have it set to non-standard 90%.

Please don't expect any elegance in the code, its real a bit messy in the stylesheets especially... lol.

I will commit it to CVS soon, wanted to concur on a name, thinking "Pixture Reloaded", kinda has a better ring to it than "Pixture CSS", and "Pixture Tableless" sounds naff (why name something that its not?).

Firefox is best, as always (IE7 should be ok, IE6 is a minor train wreck currently...)

UPDATE: added node teaser borders & jQuery pngFix for IE6 (but for some odd reason its not working...), cleaned up a few other bits.

UPDATE2: pngFix, what was I thinking... IE6 train wrecked badly, now removed...

UPDATE3: committed to CVS, initial release from Head (takes up to 12 hours to appear) - http://drupal.org/project/pixture_reloaded

thanks jmburnz and anyone who helped!

Closing this as its no longer relevant with the release of Pixture Reloaded.