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By cel4145 on
I'm not promising anything really exciting (I'm not a web designer by trade), but I've put together over ten xtemplate skins for Drupal 4.4 into one package. You can learn more, see and download them on my weblog (thumbnails lead to larger png's).
Comments
xtemplate
Thanks for this. I was just struggling with xtemplate trying to change some of the background colors in the css. I was directly editing the files through my control panel and couldn't get them to work. Now, of course, I'm getting error messages trying to use Winzip to download these files. That's the par for the course kinda stuff.
But I think it's important to build up an xtemplate arsenal which you seem to have made a big contribution to. I guess I kinda feel I would like to just cut and paste some code or actually see the code within a wiki so people could discuss the code to know how to make more changes.
For example I'm kinda confused in the xtemplate css file that all colours seem to have a 3 digit reference while standard seems to be 6 digit reference. Also in changing these digits I'm not always sure what Header or other titles refer to. I would think other people have same problems and I'm wondering what the best way search for the answers is. Almost like modules should be made in wiki format where people can discuss the code? It would also save on bandwidth because they wouldn't be downloading just cutting and pasting?
color coding
the standard websafe color pallete colors can be abbreviated from 6 to 3 digits (as can some other colors). the browser knows that a 3 digit code means double each digit. so "#660033" becomes "#603." so if you work with websafe colors, it's just easier to use the 3 digit short version.
as for what "Header or other titles refer to" well, that's the hard part. best way to figure that out is to look at the source code for a page in the browser. at least that's what i do :)
Documentation
The xTemplate documentation may also help:
http://drupal.org/book/view/6493
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updated
i ran the skins through the w3c validator and had to fix a few things. all should be CSS2 compliant now. the download file has been updated to reflect the improved CSS.
also, i've included a couple of new skins since this original post.