On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 16:13 +0100, Gour wrote: > You're definitely much more experienced and knowledgeable than myself, > but one of the things, besides in-context editing, which I like in > Concrete5 is that it's dead-simple to convert HTML/CSS design into > native Concrete5 theme...probably (even) easier than creating Drupal > theme.
I didn't work on that part yet, since I preferred to focus on more
"structural" things, and to wait until the CMS functionality is well
defined before writing the theming part.
What I think about that, after I wrote tons of Drupal themes, is that
most of times there's no need to rewrite all the views, but instead,
with a well-done base theme, most of the tweaks can be done by adding
some CSS or, at most, by overwriting views used to render just small
pieces of the page.
So, at the moment I'm using a well-nested set of views that may be
overwritten at different levels, avoiding to touch "the big ones", such
as layout.html, that may contain structural changes required for new
versions of the CMS, etc.
Then, I'll need to find a good way to overwrite views/css files with
other contained in ``themes/<selected-theme>/*``.
Another nice thing in Drupal, that I think we should implement in
web2cms too, is "re-colorable" themes: through the admin panel, you can
tweak the color palette, that automatically gets applied on theme CSS
and images by recalculating HSV differences, creating gradients in
images, etc.
Anyways, I'll have a look at Concrete5 themes, to see if I can figure
out a way to quickly import and reuse them inside web2cms.
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