theme

After playing around with Raincity's Basic theme and creating the crude looking theme for this site I thought it was time to make a custom theme for my "web development company" site.

So this time I used the layout-fixes.css file to create a fixed size page. The main page div is set to 800x600 so the content looks good on most screen sizes and the proportions also look good in the ratio 4:3. The content-inner div is set with an overflow of auto so that the 800x600 size is always maintained and scrollbars are added to the content if needed. The site background was generated using one of the many stripped background generators, but all the other graphics where hand made in photoshop.

Today I have been playing around with Drupal themeing. I used Raincity's Basic theme (http://drupal.org/project/basic) as a starting block, it is based upon Zen theme, and seems a little easier to customise. With only one hours work I was able to come up with what you see now.

I hope to customise it a bit more ove the next week, but as a developer and not a designer it takes me a little longer to work out what looks good and what doesn't.

One thing I can't seem to get working is the primary links. I'm not sure why but they arn't displaying. That's another thing to look into this week.

As you may or may not know as well as this being my Blog it is also my play site so I can try out new drupal features in a real world situation.

After watching Rob Douglass's screen cast (embedded after the break) about new Drupal themes which use the Colour module I thought I would try one of them out.

This is the Pixture theme, it come in a nice girly pink as default, but the colour picker allows the user to select exactly the colour needed.

This weekend along with the usual food shop and grass mowing I have been working on many Drupal projects.

The first being a module called "Referrer" in version one it will create a block like the one to the right that says "Hosted on (gs) Gris-service by (mt)". This will then link to Media Temple with your referrer link. I will then develop it to allow the user to select their host in the configuration page, it will then show the relevant logo with referrer link.