Theme development

Anybody else think this causes more trouble than it's worth?

I've been playing with a new css for box_grey for the last month. At first I couldn't understand why the style sheet for box_grey went into so much detail, so I tried to be more general in my style sheet. Ofcourse that didn't work, certain elements stubbonly refused to be styled. Now I now why.

I'm planning to write a theming.module.

The basic functions will allow administrators to create a theme through the administration/settings/theming. The first version the module will only let you change the looks of an existing default theme through CSS, but later I'm planning to extend it to control divs as well. It will come with a range of predefined themes (ex. matrix, authumn leaves or subSilver). The module will come with a range of small image elements to be used in the process of theming (ex. 50 backgrounds and 20 different corners). These image elements can be extended and managed easily by uploading them from the administration/settings/theming. I want to make it easy to use for newbies.

I want to make sure this module is well integrated with the core of Drupal. I don't have any experience in writing modules, so I'll be asking many questions about things that are not covered in the handbook.

My questions for now:
1. Is there a need for such a module?
2. Is there a similar initiative in the works that I can join in, rather than starting a new one?
3. How do you see this module integrated into the Drupal core?
4. Are you interested in helping me with the programming part?

At the moment I'm working on a project that is based on Drupal. This is my first Drupal project and I'm learning about Drupal on the fly. Once I'm through this project I'll start with t

Hi,

I am looking at developing a theme and want to try doing it simply using php. Ideally I would like to find an existing plain php template and so that I can see how the theme is implemented just using php.

I have looked in the templated section for downloads but none of them say they are simple php templates. ADC, Goofy and one other don'e thave any description at all (not very useful really).

I was curious if anyone has managed to develop a dropdown form/select menu for phptemplate based themes. I would very much like to turn the secondary links into such a dropdown menu, but haven't managed to achieve this.

Does anyone have any advice on how to accomplish this?

To get a nice effect with your BreadCrumbs open your /themes/xyz_theme/style.css

>>Find ".breadcrumb"

>>Add below:

.breadcrumb a {
  padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
  border: solid 1px #ccc;
  background: #eee;
  color: #666;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-size: 10px;
}

.breadcrumb a:hover {
  color: #eee;
  background: #666;
  border-color: #ccc;
  text-decoration: none;

That's it! Simply use your own background, color, and border for different colors. >-)

Hi guys,
I'm trying to display the actual date in a theme based on Pushbutton.
Is there a way to do it?
Moreover are there any other variables than the ones listed in the drupal handbook?
Where can I find them?
Thanks in advance,
Riccardo