Theme development

I redid the xtemplate.xtmpl using an HTML design I prefered. I placed the table containing blocks, nodes, etc inside a table row in my page. Everything works great except one minor issue: every row is spaced apart by a couple pixels. I've gone through the css file alter padding where I found it appropiate but no luck. Any ideas?

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Hi,

I am working on a customized theme based on XTemplate, and I noticed that it looks like the 'font-size' argument is not defined for the text of articles in the xtemplate.css file of the 'pushbutton' subdirectory. The result is that the corresponding text area displays a font size disproportionate when compared to the rest of the page. I thought the theme maintainer would like to know to possibly add it for a future version.

I'm trying to establish my drupal site.
The thing I need is to layout my front page similar to http://www.tipic.com front page.
For example:

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|                       |
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|         node1         |
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|         |             | 
|         |    node3    | 
|  node2  |             |
|         |-------------|
|         |    node4    |
|         |-------------|
|         | node5| node6|
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And each node need to have picture (I planning to use flexinode for this)


I spend to much time fighting with CSS but this don’t work due lack of CSS2 support in browsers.


So I think I must use old good tables, but how it can be done?
When I tried CSS I just add 'id="{nodeNumber}"' to my xtmpl file of XTemplate theme to make node3 differs from node4 e.t.c. then I use xtemplate css for positioning. But as I say above this works buggy, very different in different browsers so only way to make this real works is to use tables.

• 1. How can I do this with tables and xTemplate?
• 2. Is flexinode useful for this or there other way?

Would be very glad to see comment from tipic.com developers.


Thanks, Alexandr.

I have been trying to adjust the xtemplate.xtmpl in order to put the title and the Submission details in the same block and I have realized that the node headers on the stories promoted to the front page are differnt from when they are viewed by themselves.

After downloading Goofy this evening, I found that I couldn't add Comments to Nodes. Searching through the Drupal Forums, I found that several individuals had posted regarding the same issue. I am going to provide my fix here with the caveat that you do this at your own risk. It works great for me. If anyone knows of any implications that I may not be aware of, please post a reply and let me know. That said, here's the fix:

I insert flexinode related functions into xtemplate.theme and flexinode template blocks into xtemplate.xtmpl. This comfotable to change flexinode presentation but i afraid this makes much load for server to render each field of each flexinode this way. Is any function in drupal to see page rendering time? I need to compare speed of page generation using xtemplated flexinode and phpcoded flexinode.
thanks.