Re: Themes usability and maintenance (Was: [drupal-devel] Integrating Drupal with phpBB)

Kobus Myburgh wrote:
> 
> 
> Which brings another thought back to the front - there were discussions
> whether to (get rid of all the themes and?) bring out only one theme
> (XTemplate?) with different CSS styling to suit different needs. With
> everything being very CSS friendly nowadays, isn't it something that
> should be considered?
> 
> pros:
> * Quicker to come up with "new designs"

+1
With 4.2, I began using XTemplate as the base for all my theme design. A 
half a dozen themes later, now that I'm comfortable with all of the 
nuances of XTemplate, design is easier than it was when building themes 
for Drupal 4.1. In fact, I had helped someone with creating a modified 
version of Interlaced for a Drupal 4.1 site. When upgrading their site 
to 4.2, I ended up modifying XTemplate to achieve the same look rather 
than making changes to their Interlace theme. Wasn't that much more work 
now that I've gotten used to the various CSS classes. And potentially, I 
felt it would be easier for the site owner should then decide they want 
to start modifying their theme.

Charlie
http://cyberdash.com/


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