How to use the Fluidgrid theme?
nirvanajyothi - June 9, 2009 - 16:47
| Project: | Fluid Grid System |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0-beta1 |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | couzinhub |
| Status: | needs work |
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Description
The demo site is awesome! Cheers!
How do we assign blocks into the grids if they are meant to be? The block config page shows 6 regions to which the blocks can be assigned and is displayed as expected. I feel there is lot more that can be achieved with this innovative theme.
Have installed the theme and set to 12 column layout. Can you give few tips on how to arrange the content as in the demo website?
Am not a programmer. So if it involves writing custom code feel free to ignore this.
-thank you
#1
Fluidgrid is in active development, and when I say active, I really mean it :) !
The version available right now is an alpha just so people can try it, but I really recommend (June 9th 2009) not to use it for production sites. The next version will be extremely different already, as I'm trying to implement a multigrid system. It is growing organically so I can't really provide an accurate handbook to explain the process yet. But as I'm trying to follow the concept of the 960 system, it should be a fairly similar process to create a layout using fluidgrid and 960.
You can see a slide presenting how to use grid systems here : http://www.slideshare.net/fourkitchens/drupal-theming-using-the-960-grid...
Fluidgrid will be close to this, with some improvments and flexibility.
Thanks for your interest :)
#2
ok. will catch the slideshow.
-thank you.
#3
I just updated Fluidgrid in a new Alpha version (3). This version proves that Fluidgid is not yet ready for a proper documentation, as I changed a lot of the bases of the theme.
I'll keep this issue as Active until I have a proper documentation ready.
#4
Just walked in. Its alpha 6 now! This may be the most active theme in progress these days! (:
#5
True... bu it's still Alpha :)
It's due to the fact that it's not only a theme, it's really a framework I'm working on, and I'm faced with some tricky cross browser issues (IE6 and Opera to be precise).
I'll release the first BETA when I consider it stable on IE, and a full release might support Opera.
There's also some cleanup to do in the theme system, and some features to add, (working on an 'analyze' mode... more to come soon).
I'm also doing some testing for an horizontal grid.
So as you can see, there's a lot to do, and I kinda use the releases to keep track of my work :)
btw, I think it's the first time I see a reversed smiley ! So funny (:
#6
haha...its the Arabic way!
ok. will wait for the betas.
-thank you.
#7
Will create documentation when opening beta stage
#8
FYI the slide show has been removed from SlideShare.
Since documentation is still pending (beta is out it appears) it would be nice if anyone who has successfully created a sub-theme with FluidGrid could post a few pointer steps to get us slacker non-coders a bit of a start. I have yet to figure out how to change the number of grid columns or how to establish block regions on the grid. A sample sub-theme with a left - content - right and a footer or some other full grid region to compare to the clean STARTERKIT would do the trick for me.
Sounds like a great project so far
B
#9
Documentation is such a heavy work, I find myself procrastinating a lot on that subject. Sorry Guys !
So far, I can tell that the sub-theme is very empty for a good reason. I wanted it that way because I don't want to trap users into a define way to create their theme. I might play around with templates and maybe suggest a default page template as an example, but not active by default.
As you said, we are still in BETA, meaning that there is some remaining bugs (the one that comes to me right now is some IE7 grid-display issue, and the class 'first' and 'last' that interfere with drupal default 'first' and 'last' classes, but there might be more). So it is hard to start documenting something that is not finished... hey look at me finding excuses for procrastinating even more... :)
For the number of grids and all, go to the theme settings page
/admin/build/themes/settings/fluidgrid
or
/admin/build/themes/settings/STARTERKIT
At the bottom you should see a section related to fluidgrid, where you can change columns, width etc...
For the rest, the best thing I can give you is to have a look at the source code (using firebug is the best) on the examples of the official site :
http://www.fluidgrid.net/
and particularly this one :
http://www.fluidgrid.net/examples/layout-example.html
All you have to do is changing the markup of the page.tpl.php of the theme. If you use the starterkit, get a copy of the page.tpl.php from the main theme fluidgrid and paste it into STARTERKIT
Hopefully, I'll get a documentation started soon :)
Good luck ! And thanks for your support !
#10
Thanks for the added info. I had looked at all those previously and I still don't see what is apparently obvious. Grid columns aside. I have no idea how to identify regions for use as block locations, etc.
Giving a good simple working example of a page.tpl.php that is inactive by default would be amazingly useful. Plus, maybe, a .info file that shows how to define block "regions" as well. (I assume they are established there)
Looks like I will revert to the BluePrint Framework and hope I can weasel a fixed width larger than 950px or hunt down another fluid starter theme. I seem to have seen a fluid version of Zen. Who knows.
I will keep an eye on this and in the months to come when the project is further along and docs w/ examples are available I'll give it another shot.
Thanks again.