Theming Drupal
November 17, 2003 - 3:51pm — scott@shard.ser...
Woah. Very cool that I can log into anyone's Drupal site using my very own Drupal account.
Community building at it's best.
In regards to our comments on my site...
I was playing with the Site Cloud and you were right - damn it's useless. I figured it could display RSS feeds, but the News Feed mod apparently is what I was looking for.
As for theming - the crappy start I have on my site is actually a modification of an existing theme. I used it as a starting point but I think I'll take a look at the Xtemplate instead. I found an interesting theme called tableless (actually I found it by searching for themes on your site) but I think I'll look at XTemplate first and see what interesting things I can do with it.
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giving 4.3 a miss
from what I have seen before I resurrected my 4.2 install there isn't much there to draw me in... I am going to run a dev site but not going to try 4.3 for the "real deal"
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My old theme was based on tableless, which is "pure PHP". That is, the entire theme file outputs the HTML code, mixing code and layout. It does nicely tag everything with CSS classes, and writing everything in PHP directly gives you maximum flexibility.
Xtemplate gives you a bunch of things you can change directly in the admin interface of Drupal, plus it uses a templating system. You can open up this template directly in a WYSIWYG HTML editor and design the whole site. You can't, however, mix in any PHP code.
There are a ton of theme changes, and potentially a new/improved templating system, in the 4.4 release of Drupal.