Theme development

Hi Everyone,

I recently installed Drupal and G2 and intergerated both. Both are working fine. I am using the connections theme which I have modified. This theme is a fixed width layout - 760px and the main content is only 450px.

What I want is this:

When I view gallery pages - I dont need the side bar(of Drupal - I have already turned of the sidebar of gallery Matrix theme). I just need to display gallery for the entire width of the page. Is there a way to turn off the side bar of Drupal ?

Thanks in advance

Karthik

Hi,

I am theming my Drupal site at the moment with phptemplate (drupal 4.6.3), and I want to theme the nodes according to taxonomy. It's a simple blog taxonomy, ie, 'music', 'general', 'news' etc.

I would like to add something like <div class="<?php print $terms ?>"> into node.tpl.php, then create css for (example) .music, or .tech.

Are there any companys or designers that are experienced in doing custom themes using Drupal?
I'm finding its a bit difficult to design a layout and then to work it with the template systems.

Is the theme used on drupal.org available to download anywhere? I would very much like to use it as a base to develop my own theme.

Yours hopefully

Ben Francis
http://hippygeek.co.uk

Hi,

My website consists of Drupal providing the content and a SMF (Simple Machines) forum. I am wanting to include the Drupal header at the top of all forum pages so I have a consistent header throughout my site.

I am able to edit the Simple Machines template files so that I can insert the header code from Drupal. What I would like to know though is the best way to access the Drupal variables required in the forum template, these would be $logo, $site_name, $site_slogan and $primary_links.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks, fondie

Hi,

I am in the process of turning my website into a Drupal site and implementing a new design. I want it to be a two column layout however I do not plan to use any blocks (if possible) and I wonder how to implement this. This is the layout (ignore the typo! :) ):
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For the first page (main page of site):
A. Recent stories posted.
B. General information about the site, "welcome blah blah", I want this editable as a Page preferably.
C. Static navigation, this will be a Flash movie and will be static and coded in the template.

For news and blog subpage:
A. This is where the story is shown.
B. Past stories, show calendar or list of stories.
C. -same-

Other pages (generic content):
A and B. Using Page type nodes for full-width text or two columns (50%/50%).

Any idea how I could achieve this?

Secondly, I am unsure how I would go about administering this site lacking a blocks menu. Could I use an otherwise unused DIV for the lefthand menu and use the full-width area (A and B) for content or would I have to designate two separate DIVs below the other elements? Could I use another theme only available to me so that I can administer the site easily?

I want members to be able to contribute and create content, in this case comments on Pages, Stories (and/or Blog entries) and I realize this could be hard without any space for Blocks. I would only need a small area for these links so I am thinking of implementing these Blocks as boxes/paragraphs in column A.