Theme development

Hello everybody,

I am currently developing my own theme and have read a lot in the handbook and a lot more in the API documentation. I am a coder, so that wasn't all that hard, since I am usually interested in how things work and I think, that I understood quite a bit of the theme system.

Now, after all this, I am still fighting to get everything look like I want it to. It's not, that I don't know how to use the PHPTemplate engine (which is a sometimes a bit messy solution, btw), I just don't get all the system styles and hardcoded structure out of my theme. I have even modified the taxonomy.module (Theming node lists) to get more control over what is generated. And as I can see it so far, I will have to modify other parts, just to get a more generalized data output I can work with in the templates.

It's not that I want everything served on a silver tray, it's just that I think that drupal is so well structured and open in it's concept, that it is sometimes really sad to see the theming system to ruin part of that. It is just so overly complicated to get your content where you want it (without writing to much php code) and to style it like you want it, just because there is too much built-in design and style. I know it is hard to do, but there should be a more consequent separation of content, logic (not to be confused with presentational logic) and presentation and there shouldn't be a default style or something like that.

Hello,

I downloaded phptemplate zipped it and put it in engine folder, I also downloaded leaf theme and put it in themes folder.

I go to themes, I see no new themes ,..

HelP ........

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I am working on a project (not public yet) in which we have a bunch of custom forms. How can I make the form generation interface layout forms in some way that is not just everything in one big column? I am using a custom phptemplate theme and would like to be able to format forms so that they look the way our designers like them.

I finally made a theme that I am very satisfied with! my others... yeah somewhat good...

I was looking at binarybonsai.com and I loved the theme he had on there. I had to make something like it, so after thinking up what to call this new theme, I got to work. I wanted the Header to be flash and I wanted it to look really cool and stylish. After working on it for the day and working out flash bugs and etc., I have this http://www.afterdeathgraphics.com/themedev/.

I was wondering if anyone could port over the two column gespaa theme. And if someone has already done this. Can you tell me how to get it? Thanks.

Hi,

I have recently created a new website for which I had to choose between Drupal and Mambo, I'm very glad I chose the former, but there is one thing that was straight forward with Mambo that I've not been able to do with Drupal yet: personalize how lists of nodes are being presented. Note that I do not necessarily want to change the template of each node.