D7 template club
With the ever impending release of D7 RC1, I thought that a pleasant distraction would be to begin a discussion on styling our newly, soon to be upgraded sites (he says with fingers crossed).
Coming from a design background myself, one thing which to me is almost as important as getting the coding and funcionality of D7 to the point of complete stability, is the presentation and look of my site.
If we can all make suggestions on changes we have made and talk about things that we found or are finding difficult and how we dealt with them then it may save others the pain of re-inventing the wheel so to speak.
I have begun working on some changes myself based on the default template in D7B8. I am currently working on the CSS files and altering the image files in /templates/base/ in the hope that it won't change too much, if at all from the official RC version when it eventually is released.
So please post your ideas and thoughts.
And yes oh you wonderful boonex staffy people, I do realise that this could be seen as a technical question which should be in the forum, though I would rather see it as a more creative blog where we can all help eachother as boonex evolves into an even more dynamic piece of community software.
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Look for the following five .png images in /templates/base/images/
sp_op_gr.png
op_cor_tr.png
op_cor_tl.png
op_cor_br.png
op_cor_bl.png
Using something like photoshop, change the hue/saturation to whatever colour you like best. When doing so, if you save the colour you chose by clicking save in the hue/saturation popup then if you want to reference the exact colour in the future, all you need see more
In the file: inc/js/jquery.dolPopup.js
If you change:
if (o.fog && !$('#dolPopupFog').length) {
$('<div id="dolPopupFog" style="display: none;"> </div>')
.prependTo('body')
.css({
position: 'fixed',
top: 0,
left: 0,
width: $(window).width(),
height: $(window).height(),
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Otherwise I would say it is quite well balanced.
My site I'm afraid to say will be more corpoate looking and not as exciting.....lol!
Other than that.... looks OK.
Anyway.....I agree that the block title colour is too dark. Maybe try white on the text. I would also use white text for the top menu and not teal as the teal stands out too much. If you want to use the teal in your logo, maybe try it on buttons and menus when you hover over them with some transparency to the teal.
One more thing....the images for the buttons on block title bar are see more
I meant to say that my site will have to have a less exciting and more corporate feel than yours Xiro. Nice work though.....did it take you long?
Just wanted to get some feedback from the masses as to their thoughts about the idea of sharing template ideas as it seems that one Boonex staff member gave a negative vote towards the blog.
I thought we were here to assist eachother....or am I being foolish?
I do like the template clubs idea and all, but also would like to have alternative ways of information channels on D7 and their platforms in general... a 3rd party forum or something maybe... i know we shouldn't think of diverting all this knowledge to separate sources but it might do some good!
Have you started work on your new template yet or will you be sticking with the default?