By mattyohe on

I'm curious if anyone who has done theme developement would know if I would be able to make a theme that looks similar to the way apple.com works. Main adverts on the front, then with content on the backend.

Any help would be great, thanks.

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tclineks’s picture

tclineks commented

You can make it look however you like, the drupal theme system is very powerful and many radical visual changes can be created without changing the core code.

I'd recommend getting a working installation and installing many themes to get acquainted with the theme system.

Smarty templates are supported with http://drupal.org/project/smarty
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Good luck!

mattyohe’s picture

mattyohe commented

But I'm curious as to what it can do... The problem with when I themed mambo was that I could only have one banner module and it would be on EVERY page of my template. There are some pages I wanted to have different banners or none at all.. Mambo didn't seem to make this possible.

tclineks’s picture

tclineks commented

What I was trying to say is: don't think of limits but think of possibilites -- Drupal can accomplish virtually anything possible, though modifying core code is sometimes part of the solution.

The core code in Drupal, is IMO much cleaner than
Mambo's internals.

As for page-specific content, there are usally several ways to accomplish a task.

For example, the Theme variable 'is_front' is available to show conditional front-page content.

Good luck!

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Ayman commented

With the frontpage module, you can give the frontpage a layout different from the rest of the site, so yes, it's possible with Drupal.

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