P.S. The site I've been working on is http://propeller-heads.com
Please send any suggestions or thoughts about my design, I'm desperate of feedback. Seneca The Younger On Dec 29, 11:05 pm, Seneca The Younger <[email protected]> wrote: > It's true, I was making (unintentionally) a mountain out of a > molehill. Habari, with a little knowledge of php and css is quite easy > to customize! > > How the hell did it take me so long to figure out how? It seems that > what's right in front of ones face, often is the hardest thing to see. > > Thank you for Habari users like Michael C. Harris. > > Thanks again Michael. Kudos. > > Seneca The Younger > > On Dec 15, 12:28 am, Seneca The Younger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Thanks for the response Michael. > > > I'll give what you suggest a try. Sounds too easy to be true, > > especially after I've spent so much time on it, but hopefully I was > > just over complicating things. > > > Thanks again, I'll report back. > > > On Dec 14, 4:51 pm, "Michael C. Harris" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > 2009/12/15 Seneca The Younger <[email protected]>: > > > > > I've been trying to customize habari on and off now for a few months. > > > > I've had experience in css, html and php in the past, yet for some > > > > reason I haven't been able to figure out how to customize a theme. > > > > Welcome to Habari, and sorry creating a theme has been difficult. > > > > > I haven't found any very well commented themes and the howto on the > > > > wiki is too basic. > > > > This page,http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Themes, is a hub for other > > > theming > > > pages, so you might find helpful things there. > > > > > Maybe my css, php skills aren't up to par, and this I am working on, > > > > but does anyone have constructive suggestions on how to go about > > > > creating my own theme? > > > > > I'm mostly having a hard time figuring out how css is working with php > > > > to render pages. If I could figure out how the php renders the html so > > > > as to use css to organize it, I would be in good shape.... > > > > Create a directory for your theme in user/themes. Let's call it seneca. > > > > In the seneca directory, create the theme.php and theme.xml files (just > > > copy > > > them from one of the core themes, such as mzingi, and change names etc to > > > your > > > theme's name). You can customise stuff in there later. > > > > If you have a static HTML file with the design you want, copy that into > > > the > > > seneca directory and rename it home.php. Copy your CSS file in as well, > > > and > > > call it style.css. > > > > In the HTML head element in home.php, link to your CSS file like this: > > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<?php > > > Site::out_url( 'theme' ); ?>/style.css"> > > > > You now have a basic theme. There are a bunch of other templates that you > > > might > > > want to create, such as for displaying single posts, but that's the > > > basics. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > -- > > > Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT > > > Universityhttp://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog > > > IRC: michaeltwofish #habari -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users
