Creating personal/customized theme
I've only really just started using Drupal and I've been asked to create a customized theme.
I'm not really fantastic with using PHP. In fact I know very little about it, however I'm good with HTML and CSS.
I've looked up some tutorials and I have been trying to edit (just to get my head around editing a drupal theme) the Zen theme. However I'm finding it extremely clunky and messy. I've probably done something very wrong. But I found that too many .id tags were meant for the same function, and working out which tag overrode the functions became rather difficult.
Would it be easier for me, as someone who is more familiar with html. To just create a customized theme in html and css then transfer it over to drupal? If so, how do I go about doing that? I think I would feel better doing it that way, as I would have more flexibility.
Hope someone can help.
oh and I have got Firebug.
personally...
I've never understood what was so great about the Zen theme. (It seems that the more they tried to make it simple the more complicated it got.)
You're probably better off using one of the default themes as a starting point (like bluemarine.) Take out the tables and float your sidebar and go from there. And check out the theme guide to see what's available to you.
~silverwing
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I agree
Zen theme is over rated. It is just one big mess.
I think I'll look into creating my own them through html. I know it well. And I've been able to find a few tutorials on php so I'm sure through using drupals tutorials and those I can work out something.
Does anyone know some helpful drupal tutorial sites? Something that might help?
Maybe it's just me being a control freak, but I prefer using my own naming conventions with CSS and html. It makes life easier for me. I feel out of control when I am forced to use something someone else has worked on.
Ditto That
I've concluded that the zen is NOT a good starting theme as well. I'm trying the hunchbaque (i think that's the right spelling) and i seems to be going ok, but everything theme has a little bit different ways of naming things which can be frustrating. Anywhooo, you might find this helpful, I know I did! It's a theme developer's cheat sheet. Check it out!
http://www.minezone.org/blog/2007/12/18/
awsome!
fantastic! thank you for that. I'll have a look see.
One of these days I'll get around to learning more about php. But this will help heaps!
thanx!