I am running the seabreeze them and like it. Theme editing in not an area I am strong in and I always struggle with this. I need to do a couple of things: insert a banner add from the banner module at the very top of the theme and change the header image. I am hoping I can get some tips, links, etc so I can start reading on the subject.
Thanks,
Joe.....
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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 - 08:02 AM
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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 - 01:21 PM
Make a copy to work on - leave the original untouched. It gives you the security of returning to something not broken, and if you change the original, your changes will be overwritten with upgrades.
Some xanthia themes one can simply duplicate. Some require looking inside the theme itself and changing some of the language defines, or you will appear to have two of the same theme in your list and be hopelessly confused. There is a post about that in the last few weeks.
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Look in the theme for master.htm and home.htm - these are the templates for the majority of the theme - make changes there.
Look in the CSS file in you theme. Make changes there.
Use Firebug to identify what is generating what you see and make it easier to target your changes.
Make sure you are not storing templates in database and not caching while doing theme changes or you may not see the changes you make.
That should bet you started...
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edited by: pheski, Feb 08, 2009 - 01:28 AM
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Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 06:34 AM
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Make a copy to work on - leave the original untouched. It gives you the security of returning to something not broken, and if you change the original, your changes will be overwritten with upgrades.
Having done that myself, just to add to the message you linked, I found that when you copy the Seabreeze theme to the "yourtheme" (or whatever you are going to call it) module, the themes/yourtheme/version.php file is the place to go, and the $themeversion items you want to change are 'name' and 'displayname' (along with whatever you want to change). I second the use of Firebug, particularly the "Inspect Element" function, as a valuable aid to editing the theme.
If you have not used it, it's a Firefox add-on.
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Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 02:35 PM
I have the banner add up where it needs to go kinda, it on the top;) It looks a little different between firfox and IE, better in IE. The downloads this is still not working. Dows anyone have links to download some of the other themes? I have a test site I am working on and would like to try out as many different themes as possible.
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Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 02:35 PM
BTW that firbug is very cool,,, handy tool.
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Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 04:39 PM
SitePoint.com has a plugin for Firebug to incorporate their CSS & HTML reference guides.
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Posted: Feb 10, 2009 - 04:26 AM
Called FireScope and it is excellent.
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Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 02:20 AM
I downloaded firscope but I must be doing something wrong. What an I to do with the files? I unzippped them, no info in readme??
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Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 02:43 AM
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I downloaded firscope but I must be doing something wrong. What an I to do with the files? I unzippped them, no info in readme??
FireScoe is epxerimental.
So follow the guide right here: https://addons.mozil…/experimentalAddons
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