Hello and thanks for a very clean, well done theme.

I am doing the upgrade from Marinelli version 5 to 6. My v5 theme has been modified a good bit to make it look the way it needs to for my site. The v6 theme has five new css files where theme.css was the only one before. If I go through all those files and make all these changes, I'm going to have a nightmare to sort out with the next version. My question, what is the best way to modify this theme without chopping up the existing css files?

I read about subthemes, but the .tpl.php files are still inherited from the base theme, and even the subtheme css doesn't seem to override. I'll do whatever work is necessary, but I'd like to make this easier on myself the next time.

Thanks,
Beth

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bshaf commented

I meant to say style.css, not theme.css. Update: I also just noticed the subtheme css (gnifetti) overrides in IE, but in Firefox, it reverts back to the base theme. What's weird is that if I go to, say, admin/blocks and choose gnifetti, it displays properly. I have not seen this issue in the forums. I know that subthemes are the answer here, I just need to get it working.
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Title: Upgrade from 5 to 6 css - best method? » Marinelli Subtheme overrides in IE but not Firefox
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Well I'm embarrassed, I was going nuts trying to figure this out and it turned out to be the most ridiculous thing. I had my user account's theme set to marinelli. So of course I was logged in and seeing marinelli no matter what I did. I hate when things are staring me right in the face the whole time. Oh well at least I can start making my subtheme now.

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