I am a starter of Drupal 7.
I like the "Busy" theme a lot, especially this one in its screenshot of demos.
Yet, after I installed this theme, it seemed pretty far from what it looks like in the screenshot above. I tried to customize it but so far, I did not make much progress.
I see a lot of people saying this theme is good. The usage statistic shows a lot of websites are using this theme. I do like its neat layout, but as a starter, I really need some advice on how to work with this theme. How to make it look like the screenshot?
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Milo
What exactly are you having trouble with?
I don't know your level of experience with Drupal so I'm just going to give you a couple ideas.
If you go to (yourSiteName)/admin/structure/block/demo/busy it will show a demo of where you can place blocks on the page to make your site look more like the picture.
(yourSiteName)/admin/appearance/settings/busy will take you to the settings screen where you can change colors and toggle features on and off.
(yourSiteName)/admin/structure/block will take you to the blocks page where you can change the layout of each block and also configure individual blocks.
I hope this helps, if you can give a more detailed question, you'll probably get a better answer
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I currently have a website which was created using the rmarkdown default site generator. I used a bootstrap theme and I like the look of it and I am familiar with it. I am wanting to change the site over to a blogdown website, but do not want to change the look. I know it is possible to use a bootstrap theme with blogdown/hugo, but I have not found very much information on how this can be done. I am very new to website development, so my understanding is very basic. I do know that there is not just a simple answer to this. I am more looking for suggestions for how I should go about this, or resources that I might be able to use in order to accomplish this goal. If you are interested in seeing the site it is https://jamescuster.github.io/
To anybody that is interested in this, I found this blog post which helps turn any existing static website to hugo. I haven't completely gotten it all figured out, but it seems to working well so far and with a little tweaking I think I will be able to turn the bootstrap theme into a hugo theme.
I would still be interested to hear additional solutions.
Im working on a wordpress site and right now a lot of elements has the same id which makes it difficult to customize.
Right now my solution is to add changes to all of the elements which isn't feasible, the difficult part is I am unsure of how to add an ID to the specific element.
Do I do this in the css file or do I edit in php somehow?
Or is it possible to add an ID with some plugin or similar?
There is no short or easy answer to this.
The best way to figure out what's broken in your theme is by looking into the files it contains and how it works. I could not find the Cherry theme that you mentioned in your comment so that I could take a look.
Of course, to understand what's going on you're going to have to know a good amount about how themes are written. I can't suggest a better place to start than the Codex article on theme development. You may get better results (depending on how you learn best) from a web search for something like wp building a theme. I did and I got this and this but I learn best by reading; maybe videos will help you more. Unfortunately, you really won't be able to eliminate this step and it takes time.
Your theme most likely -- if it has been built in the WordPress way -- uses a series of included templates with the get_template() call. As you're looking, this is probably what you want to look for. I remember the first time I dissected a WP theme it was a daunting task and I had already been a very experienced developer for a long time at that point. Don't be discouraged.
Some themes and plugins use actions and filters to allow modification of their content. If your theme does this, modification could be as easy as hooking on a few of the right ones. This will still require figuring out which hooks to attach to.
I may be able to update this answer with something more specific if you point the first 5 or 10 hierarchical children directly below the <body> element in a typical page, like your home page or your blog page.
If this seems too complicated, you're probably best to consider hiring someone who is more familiar with WordPress theme modification to help you out.
So I have found a solution for CSS-only Pinterest style layout. I want to use CSS only because jQuery Masonry or whatever just seems less respectable.
I am a complete beginner who has bever coded anything, and I think it'll be easier to just stick to CSS for now and get good in it.
So I want to create a personal website, and I don't mind using JS elsewhere but for the layout I think I want to do it 'from scratch' without cheating with Masonry, and there is a tutorial for this with only a couple problems [cross browser issues and can't order the grids]. http://cssdeck.com/labs/css-only-pinterest-style-columns-layout
This is my question- how do I implement this into a full website?
I know the basic process of writing a website, but I really don't know where to start with making a website using this code. Can someone please give me a step-by-step on how to make a homepage that links to other pages in the website with this?
And how to customise the boxes so that they act as links to other sections of the website?
I want to do it like windows 8 style, where the homepage is made of tiles, you click on a square and it takes you to another section of the website.
HERE is an example of what I am trying to make- http://builtbybuffalo.com/
So in a sense I am asking for a step by step for beginners on how to code the website I just linked to.
Or where to find that info.
Cheers!
Hi for the last month I have started to learn CSS.Fist thing I did is read everything i could find on www.w3school.com , after that I started reading CSS Mastery 2nd edition.I have build a couple of my own websites with succes but I'm still not happy with what I know , I even practiced with the new CSS3 elements.
I've seen alot of cool stuff build using css especialy on http://www.cssplay.co.uk/ but the only problem is the source code is not displayed and I don't know how the bloody things are.A good example is this:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/tilt.html
And these is only one of the things that I've seen on this website and would like o learn how to build them.
So anyone know any other similar sites that ofer a good explanation on the more advanced stuff about css(not beginer stuff like building some drop down menus , rollover or hover efects )?Any advice is much apreciated thank you!
As already mentioned, tools like Firebug/Chrome Inspector are definite must haves.
I gained the most experience from real world problems with various different browsers. You make a site, it doesn't look so good in a particular browser. So you search on the internet. Find a solution and memorize it. I think that CSS in itself is a fairly simple tool, I class 'advanced' CSS as mastering the various techniques required to make sites work cross browser and in browsers like IE6/IE7+.
Also, Never give up with CSS, if you find a problem try and find an answer. Most of the time, there will be a simple solution.
In general, make sure your CSS is as simple as can be. I generally find that most complicated CSS can be replaced with relatively simple code, and find people get carried away and forget simple techniques to achieve similar solutions. One such problem, would be putting a button on the right hand side of a div, like below:
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You may see that some people will float the button right, adding more complexity than necessary. What ever happened to text-align:right? :-)
Finally, make sure you find a couple of blogs you like, for example http://csstricks.com and read them, taking note of new techniques. Try and master a '2 column layout', understand the difference between block/inline-block/inline, margin collapsing, tables, html forms, IE6/7 hasLayout, the list goes on. Most of which you will cover if you try and make a website template from scratch. Maybe start with an existing site and see if you can achieve the same layout.
I'm not sure with CSS how to learn it's pitfalls without encountering them mistakenly.
It looks like the stylesheet for the maze is located at: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/candr/tilt.css. You can use that against the source code to figure it out.
One of my favorite is A List Apart. Great articles, not only about CSS like I linked, but about web design and more.
Also HTML Dog has some nice CSS entries.
Then, you can find great CSS resources on the w3 site.
I'm terribly new to web development. I'm trying to make a pretty simple site with a friend. My friend has taken the time to design the layout for our site, and we have things looking how we want in a static HTML page.
What I'd like to do now is move over to a Content Management System like Drupal but keep the same design that we have all ready laid out.
Since I'm completely new to this field, I'm looking for some best-practices advice as to how to make this leap.
It's apparent to me that I could probably edit some existing Drupal Theme to make it give me the layout that I want, but is that the path I should go down?
Thanks!
Update: Also, is it more than just replacing my style.css with their style.css?
Update 2: The end goal is for people to be able to log in and create news entries, very similar to a blog that will then appear on the front page. There will be other items on the left- and right- but they don't need to be directly accessed by anyone, really. They'll stay pretty static.
The Zen theme is sort of a meta-theme that's designed to be fully standards compliant and make pretty much every aspect of theming readily customizable, with lots of informative commenting. It's the best place to start if you want to develop your own theme. Even if you find a theme that looks a lot like the one you want to create, it's probably still better to start with zen because it's extremely well laid out and instructive. That being said, I've never built a theme from scratch, but it sure looks like a lot of work.
Update
In general the best approach will likely end up being to use your designer's HTML and CSS as a reference, and to edit the Zen-based templates and CSS files to recreate that appearance. It's a bit magical.
You will end up breaking the styles used in your designer's layout into chunks that are part of various template files. The mostly-static stuff on the side columns will become what Drupal calls "blocks"; you'll likely use the top part of the page to refine the HTML for the header section of the main page template; and you'll use the central part to add any necessary tags to the content section of the main page template.
I tend to make liberal use of the Firebug extension for Firefox, or the developer tools built into Chrome. These tools let you quickly locate a given CSS element that you want to change, and edit it to see how the change will look. At first though it's probably better to just read through the whole CSS file to get a feel for how it works. Again, Zen's CSS is very easy to digest.
Pour your heart and soul into the Drupal Theming Guide for the next few days. Theming, like most things, is best done if followed by a gratuitous amount of time in the documentation.
Start with either Zen or Framework themes. They provide good starting points for working with the CSS to adapt to your design.
This helps too:
http://drupal.org/theme-guide
Whatever you do, don't take Garland theme as how a good drupal theme is done. I went down that path when I first started Drupal...