Re: Themes usability and maintenance (Was: [drupal-devel] Integrating Drupal with phpBB)
"jonathan c. tobin" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:59:21 -0800
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============2055164814== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040805030901080008000405" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040805030901080008000405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adriaan Rossouw wrote: > 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? > >> cons: >> * Possibly killing imagination in creating themes > > http://www.csszengarden.com > > table based layouts kill imagination more in my opinion. > > if you really need to .. you can write your own template for xtemplate > that does what you want (table based layouts are really not the best > solution though.. but you are still free to make them. I am fully in support of CSS based themes in favor of table-based. There are many sites expounding upon the reasons for CSS being used in preference of tables, so I won't necessarily go into that. However, what I will say is that upon installing any software package such as Drupal, osCommerece, etc, one of the first things I do to customize is develop a CSS-based theme. It makes all future modifications less frustrating and provides me with more flexibility. I will most likely be posting a generic CSS layout to the drupal site this week, nothing special, but a good framework for further development. Tables are good for displaying matrices of data, and never intended for layout or pagewide presentation. jonathan c. tobin, designer/developer silentweaponry <http://www.silentweaponry.com>, los angeles [email protected] <mailto:%[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> --------------040805030901080008000405 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Adriaan Rossouw wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="[email protected]">Kobus Myburgh wrote: <br> <blockquote type="cite">Which brings another thought back to the front - there were discussions <br> whether to (get rid of all the themes and?) bring out only one theme <br> (XTemplate?) with different CSS styling to suit different needs. With <br> everything being very CSS friendly nowadays, isn't it something that <br> should be considered? <br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite">cons: <br> * Possibly killing imagination in creating themes <br> </blockquote> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.csszengarden.com">http://www.csszengarden.com</a> <br> <br> table based layouts kill imagination more in my opinion. <br> <br> if you really need to .. you can write your own template for xtemplate that does what you want (table based layouts are really not the best solution though.. but you are still free to make them. <br> </blockquote> <tt><br> I am fully in support of CSS based themes in favor of table-based. There are many sites expounding upon the reasons for CSS being used in preference of tables, so I won't necessarily go into that.<br> <br> However, what I will say is that upon installing any software package such as Drupal, osCommerece, etc, one of the first things I do to customize is develop a CSS-based theme. It makes all future modifications less frustrating and provides me with more flexibility. <br> <br> I will most likely be posting a generic CSS layout to the drupal site this week, nothing special, but a good framework for further development. <br> <br> Tables are good for displaying matrices of data, and never intended for layout or pagewide presentation.<br> <br> </tt><tt><br> </tt> <tt>jonathan c. tobin, designer/developer<br> </tt><tt><a href="http://www.silentweaponry.com">silentweaponry</a>, los angeles</tt><br> <tt><a href="mailto:%[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br> <a href="mailto:[email protected]"></a></tt><br> </body> </html> --------------040805030901080008000405-- --===============2055164814== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline -- [ Drupal user list | http://list.drupal.org/ ] [ http://lists.drupal.org/options/drupal-user/gcpdu-drupal-user%40gmane.org ] --===============2055164814==--