I try figuring out how to have a blank content in Drupal, no theme, no header...etc. Which approach should I use? Create a new theme? Create a new view? Install a suitable modules? What is the best way to solve this problem?
If I understand right you just want you content to be printed without any styles around it.
You could make a theme and strip the html.tpl.php, page.tpl.php and node.tpl.php files.
In addition i think you could make theme functions in you template file to remove all the html around fields.
This is easily achievable using pure CSS and Responsive Design principles. A nice concise definition of Responsive Design is:
"Responsive design is an approach to web page creation that makes use
of flexible layouts, flexible images and cascading style sheet media
queries. The goal of responsive design is to build web pages that
detect the visitor’s screen size and orientation and change the layout
accordingly." Source
This article is less than two months old and not only covers the principles, but gives examples and has links to tutorials.
So, the solution is: figure out when you want this bare display used, and create a CSS that will hide all of those elements using display:none;.
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I have just begun my Typo3 journey. There is not much typo3 content available over the internet. I have gone through its documentation. As far as I have understood it, the ideal way of creating a website (frontend) is using content elements from backend and customising it according to our need in code (using CSS).
My Question is how can I do so? How can I find the code of all my used content elements so that I can use my own CSS to style it according to my need?
Or is there any other ideal or professional way of creating a webpage that mostly developers use?
Please please help me with my questions.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE :)
I suggest to look into one of the following 2 extensions which allow to create content element types within a nice backend module:
https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/mask
https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/dce
Both come with a manual and it is afterwards easy to adopt the based default templates and apply the HTML you need
for the page structure I suggest to use something like https://jweiland.net/typo3/typo3-template-version-11.html or the bootstrap package https://www.bootstrap-package.com/ which also come with various custom content elements already
if you are german speaking you can also take a look at the video tutorials of wolfgang wagner which can be found at https://wwagner.net/
The base frontend structure of a TYPO3 websites is:
page templates (usually contain generic elements such as header,
footer, navigation.
page templates can be devided into serveral sections if needed
content elements which are than displayed in this sections / in
templates
The core already ships a set of common content elements and supplies basic CSS styling which you can override and adjust.
I prefer to check what kind of content elements I might need in order to get the website layout done and then build those custom elements. This gives full control over the HTML markup output and I can write my custom CSS specifically for my markup. This approach might need more initial work and requires a deeper understanding of the system, but often pays off in the end.
But if you want to see quick results as a beginner the approaches Georg mentioned with Mask or the bootstrap package are perfectly fine.
I recently started working with css grid to create a layout for a website. I made a nice looking template for the home page. When I started developing the site and adding pages I quickly realized that I was going to need a grid for the content of each page. While this isn't a big deal for this project with only 3-4 pages, I can see this becoming hard to manage with larger websites that has different layouts for each page.
Tldr;
Using grid seems to force you into writing css for the content of each page rather than just using markup like in bootstrap. Can grid be used without having to write css for every page?
An example would be a website that has a layout for the home page content, one for a page with a form, one for a page to list articles, one for the articles themselves, etc. Already I have at least 5 different grids to maintain.
CSS Grid seems for me to be more maintainable and pure than Bootstrap table-like HTML structure (at least in most cases) because you are defining just elements in HTML and their layout in CSS.
Bootstrap is just predefined set of CSS classes, and you'd have to <link> it on every page. So what's the problem to create some common shared classes for CSS Grid layout if you have any repetitive parts and <link> everywhere you <link> like bootstrap.css?
We're starting a website project and came accross the paid Rio theme.
What we're wondering is how far can we go in customisation without having to touch the theme's CSS, and if buying the layout and theme is worth in our case at all.
Rio is not specifically the only option we want, we just want to be able to do the following:
We'd like to change the look of the website depending on the logged in user.
Theme customisation:
The .ui-panel-titlebar ("Downloads" example in Rio's Dashboard page) seem
to be hardcoded to be purple #5C6BC0. Is there any chance to change
that background by adding or changing a class? The important part is
that we don't change the core CSS files of the theme and preferably
don't create additional CSS classes nor make use of precompiling
frameworks.
Can we edit the logo on top left only to make the menu move slightly to the bottom? I tried with a bigger image through Chrome's
DevTools but the image overlays to the bottom.
Is is a good practice to think this way: We're thinking to have a WebpageThemeController with methods that would return the correct
class strings depending on the user, to put in the different parts of
the website.
Is considering Primefaces' layout+themes good in this case? If not, how should we proceed?
Thanks
Next version of RİO will have less integration to easily customize colors, fonts ...
You can even use multiple layouts per user by the way, here is a tutorial;
https://youtu.be/jbNdtndIsqk
I am planning to use foundation 3 css framework, but has no idea where should I start.
I got the jpeg mock up from designer, which design from scatch. Does the mock up need to be designed based on the founcation's grid?
Best if you take a look at the documentation for Foundation here: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/grid.php
It doesn't necessarily have to be designed by keeping the grid in mind. Any thing can be achieved with the grid system. This is basically way to create a responsive website and also helps in maintaining uniformity through out the page.
I also suggest the following:
1) get a template you like form the foundation 3 website and then start with that. Try to see how the html structure is and then.
2) try to change the backgrounds, colors by adding properties inside app.css (ITS BEST IF YOU DO NOT MAKE CHANGES TO foundation.css file).
3)Use tools like firebug or the inbuilt "inspect element" in browsers to find out which css property is being used and you can change it.
4)You need to explore it for atleast a couple of hours.
cheers!!
i want to manage all the design of my website(asp.net) through my css.
my client requirement is he should be able to change all design of website within 4-5 hrs.
is this possible.
is there any trick to do this?
Sure it is. ASP.NET doesn't but render html, css and javascript. What you need it to let it render the html you're after and hook in css for layouting.
ASP.NET also provides you with some great functionality: Themes and skins. These make changing css, images, ... a snap by either configuration or setting a certain premaid theme in code. I suggest you take a look at these videos for more information:
Customize my Site with Profiles and Themes?
Create User Selectable Themes for a Web Site
Use Skins with CSS for a Flexible and Maintainable ASP.NET Web Site
That's a very tall order indeed. By design does the client mean the color/theme or also the layout?
Basically is boils down to the following:
1. Generate semantic html only from you ASP.NET code. That is no in-line style and use meaning full css class names for html that needs to be styled
2. Break your css files into two. One for style and layout and another for color. If you're using images, they should be a part of your color css file
You can start here but also be clear about what your client means by "should be able to change the design within 4-5 hours".
Yes this possible if you have good knowledge of CSS i.e. 2 and 3. Have look at below links which can provide you and idea about layouts fully dependent on CSS
Yui library
Yui CSS tools
Many more ideas like CSS sprite can be used to achieve what you need