By AAMS on
Just wondering if any body is using artisteer (The web design program) .... coz I'm facing a couple of problems that I want to share.
Like when I align my block texts to the right it shows that it is aligned perfectly but when I upload the theme it goes to the left ... it seems it is not responding.
and the problem is that RTL features aren't supported entirely in Artisteer.
any ideas?
Thanks
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I've not used it but recently
I've not used it but recently but i had a client you approached me for help to resolve a few issues. It wasn't so much styling issues but errors with the common_methods.php file that artisteer adds to the theme. The issue was that it was still referencing some variables used for Drupal 5 but it was supposed to be a Drupal 6 theme. Apart from that, there were a hell of a lot of redundant files or files that the code could have been simply added to the node.tpl.php or page.tpl.php files instead, including a lot of CSS classes that had many duplicates.
Anyway, my point is, avoid it and try and build your theme from stratch or use a good basic theme as a starting point (like Zen theme). Then it will be easier to debug your theme.
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I don't think you can have
I don't think you can have blocks on the right with this. When you go to block/add you'll see this once you've exported your files to Drupal.
Sure you can
See www.norweld.org is a development site using a Artisteer created theme
I've been trying to use it for a month now.
I think it will be a great way for non-coders to create good looking themes, but it's not there yet. I found that there are a couple of standard Drupal practices that just didn't work for me. Like using to remove the name of a block. This was especially troublesome when I tried to use in combination with the NodeBlock Module.
Not to knock duvien, because technically he is right it is easier ,for a coder, to create and debug themes from scratch. But those of us who are not code folk don't necessarily think in the terms needed to make that a universally true statement. But, I have been trying to "learn" one of the grid based theme framework systems, Blueprint. http://drupal.org/project/blueprint I believe duvien has knowledge of the Grid 960 project. http://960.gs/ A relatively new project called FluidGrid http://drupal.org/project/fluidgrid looks like it may have promise but is in early beta. I have not yet tried it but plan to in the coming days.
In, short I plan to stick with Artisteer while it develops (I kind of have to since I sunk $129 into it lol) while trying to learn a grid system for my own designs.
Good Luck
Duvien speaks about the
Duvien speaks about the errors that appear once the files are exported into Drupal. These are not something newbies like to see and can be very worrying. People end up paying specialists to fix code that should have been sorted by Artisteer before being sold as Drupal 6 compatible.
@ bhardison - Don't get me
@ bhardison - Don't get me wrong, i think it's a great idea to have a program that can generate a theme without the need to code.
However, what i was also concerned about was how inflexible the generated theme are. The flexibility of having 2 or 3 columns layouts for different sections of your site should exist in all themes (most of the free themes have this). Something like Fusion by TopNotch Themes takes it a step further and is what Artisteer should be, take a look: http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/090709/tnt-2-0-and-future-drupal-them...
Let hope it'll be made available next month.
@AAMS -
do you have a link to your site so we can see
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