I love this theme...

How do I get 1 to 2 pixel border lines around all my content?

My sites with this theme look too fragmented and unfinished on large screen monitors.

This theme would really perk up if it had the block theme mod configured.

Still... I use Roople themes alot, because it has so many block display configs.

The future for theme development looks best with the grid/960 as far as I can tell.

News and magazine type sites can best be configured with 24/960 grid frameworks.

Maybe there are documents or screencasts about this great theme I'm not aware.

Thanks

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Jeff Burnz commented

> How do I get 1 to 2 pixel border lines around all my content?

Put a border around it.

> This theme would really perk up if it had the block theme mod configured.

Any theme can have blocktheme or blockclass module added, just add it.

> Still... I use Roople themes alot, because it has so many block display configs.

Roople is great, and really nice people also.

> The future for theme development looks best with the grid/960 as far as I can tell.

Grids has its place, the design aesthetic is more important the the implementation, btw this theme is grids based. Actually I tried to emulate the layout features of this theme with Ninesixty theme and failed, but that was an early version without the more advanced ns function it has now, although it would still be tricky, that said I am likely to migrate this theme to either ninesixty or genesis (which is not grids based but can pull off far more advanced layout options out of the box than this theme ever will).

> News and magazine type sites can best be configured with 24/960 grid frameworks.

This theme can do that, no problem.

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domineaux commented

I had a serious issue that kept one of my sites down for several days some time back caused by the way I had Newswire configured. I had to make MySql changes and I removed the theme. I never quite got to the core issue of it, but I did get the site fixed.

http://drupal.org/node/471870

So I asked the above questions, not matter how stupid they may appear to be.

I ask directions when I go to the grocery store, Home Depot, Frys, Microcenter, and if I get lost. I am also a homosapien male. LOL

Why frustrate life and waste time trying to figure something out myself that might turn a bad result; especially when the answers are already known.

Thank you for your response.

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Jeff Burnz commented

> Why frustrate life and waste time trying to figure something out myself that might turn a bad result...

Yes, I hear what you are saying, problem is that thousands of Drupal members think like that and after a few years we get cynical, and it becomes more like "why bother putting in the effort when I can just lean on someone else for the answer and get it for free". Sorry, but I personally don't have years of my life to spend answering rudimentary CSS questions—do you?

> I had a serious issue that kept one of my sites down for several days some time back caused by the way I had Newswire configured.

Possible if your servers permissions or database were borked, but the theme would just be red herring, something deeper was wrong.

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domineaux commented

Won't argue your points.

>I build websites and use the tools of Drupal for doing it. I appreciate all the work done by others, including yourself.

The number of updates, security patches, betas, alphas and RC that accompany Drupal are never ending.

I've learned to use as many modules and themes as possible to build sites. I try hard to stay within the restraints of using pre-built mods and themes. This practice is better for maintaining sites. I don't like to poke in code elements, because I don't have time to test every snippet of code in a dozen browsers and a myriad of situations.

When a new release is made I update many sites very easily. Security releases get immediate attention.

I own an arsenal of web development tools. Last night I sat down to make some minor changes in a theme and realized I had forgotten commands I needed to know for the Expression Design2 package. Probably not altogether my fault since the command structure isn't as conventional as PS. Web development is becoming much too specialized for a one man shop. You almost need several people doing separate skill items for each site built. Web tool software applications have become comprehensive and all have a pretty high learning curve. You can do more for sure, which is great. It's just keeping up with all the changes and stuff that is difficult when trying to pump out websites, dealing with servers, proprietary admins and such.

The people I work with are almost all non-profit organizations, so I will continue to remain a one man shop. That's not a complaint it just means there isn't big money like the RECOVERY.COM at 12 million a pop, for what appears to be a Drupal site.

I am grateful to the open-source community for all their work. I use it and I share about it with developers and other users.

>No... I don't expect you to answer rudimentary CSS questions. I just thought the information might already be available in a patch or something I had not found.

I don't sell sites and make payware addons to opensource projects. I work as a consultant, just like many people who work in opensource environment.

>My server wasn't borked as you say. Read the posting associated with the link, you'll see what was wrong. I've had Drupal theme issues by just leaving themes I'm not using enabled. I don't do that any more, but I know people still do the practice.

I take precautions I know about, make very few code changes to sites so I can keep them secure and upgraded on a timely basis.

Actually, I am probably the ideal person to use Drupal... I use it, appreciate it, and all the work contributed by the community, even if I do ask dumb questions.

I'm cool with this, just sharing abit.. hope you are cool with it too.

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Jeff Burnz commented

Yea, I'm cool as, thanks for the detailed response.

I see about the theme enabled issue, being caught by that one myself once or twice.

You are totally correct that web dev is so specialized its really very hard for a one man operation to handle. That was a major reason I gave up building Drupal sites altogether. Now I just do themes and themes only, and now I can hyper specialize in what I want to do, which is build beautiful themes.

The things you point out were a big reason why I set up AdaptiveThemes, because 1) we need to collaborate with each other and 2) to provide high quality premium themes to clients and other small drupal shops for their clients - so you could deliver really stunning sites without having to shell out big dollars for a custom theme. We tend to think we'll have a high trust factor because many of us are heavily involved with the Drupal project.