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Can't... look... away.... mesm

2009-07-28T07:26:40.592+02:00

Can't... look... away.... mesmerized...

I think it's easy to forget th

2009-07-27T08:28:58.850+02:00

I think it's easy to forget that the majority of people creating Drupal themes are not what we'd call themers. They are not professional coders. They're creating a site for their business, their boss, their neighbour's sister's business, or the organization they volunteer for. They are lucky to know some CSS and work their way around PHP files, and will grasp onto any snippet or tutorial they can find that simply works. I think adding consistency to page.tpl is a worthwhile step to increase the number of early successes for those learning theming.

This doesn't make sense to me.

2009-07-27T08:16:03.236+02:00

This doesn't make sense to me. In fact, one of the touted features of D6 was to be able to create CSS-only themes. While I understand where you're coming from, I don't think it sends the right message. Perfectly wonderful themes can be made with just CSS and an info file, and presence of a template file does not a good themer make :) ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

If the current inline styles a

2009-06-29T20:36:11.132+02:00

If the current inline styles are the ones that seem to work in Garland and some other themes, those should probably be set as the default styles for the new class as well, which can be overridden now in the theme if in a case such as yours, they need to be. Also, only dashes should be used in css classes/IDs, so 2checkout_review_table should be 2checkout-review-table

A big +1 on this. It's a huge

2009-06-29T00:28:58.538+02:00

A big +1 on this. It's a huge source of confusion for newbies ("why do i have two primary menus?") and is more consistent with the way other 'special' elements like mission and footer_message are also becoming blocks in D7. So do these blocks have titles off by default?

Glad this session got in, I'm

2009-06-19T23:27:04.738+02:00

Glad this session got in, I'm excited to learn more about what you're doing.

I'm using http://drupal.org/pr

2009-06-17T04:14:29.538+02:00

I'm using http://drupal.org/project/issues/uc_discounts_alt on a new site and love it so far, very feature rich and configurable. It does role-based discounts.

http://drupal.org/project/taxo

2009-06-15T23:27:06.713+02:00

http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_hide ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

Looking for the same thing. T

2009-06-15T00:37:51.679+02:00

Looking for the same thing. Taxonomy is a workaround but it would be cleaner to just be able to apply it to all of a certain class(es). Thanks!

Yep, we just started on it :)

2009-06-11T03:09:59.352+02:00

Yep, we just started on it :) http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/090519/kicking-ubercart-notch I posted a teaser image the other day to the project page: http://drupal.org/project/acquia_prosper

Ubercart is in a bit of a uniq

2009-06-01T17:45:01.778+02:00

Ubercart is in a bit of a unique position, needing to cater to both Drupal developer pros and very new users to e-commerce and Drupal. I think Views/CCK is a no-brainer for developers. I also think it's a no-brainer for new users, to get them using these modules that are the backbone of nearly any advanced functionality in Drupal. However, that's from the expert perspective ;) One thing I wanted to add is that moving towards the UberDrupal install profile will really help to soften the blow. It won't be a list of "oh and you need to get these ten other modules" if the installation profile really becomes what it could be.

Yep, big thumbs up to everythi

2009-05-30T17:39:22.017+02:00

Yep, big thumbs up to everything here! Also, when learning to theme things like the catalog pages, at least there's already a lot of help out there for theming views, plus you can change a lot through the UI. Universally, whenever I see someone *experienced* with Drupal trying out Ubercart for the first time, there's this "you're serious? this isn't based on views?!?!" shock :P

Ooh, forgot about that. Yeah,

2009-05-28T01:48:32.353+02:00

Ooh, forgot about that. Yeah, that would be great to throw a container around the body. I think we've had to do that in a few themes actually. Thanks!

Looks really nice Ken! I like

2009-05-27T22:32:46.742+02:00

Looks really nice Ken! I like the dark shirt. Could we get a liiiiiittle more fine tuning on the kerning though so that the CA and RA aren't touching? The first part of the word COLORADO could probably be tightened up a touch too. ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

Panels would work, but so woul

2009-05-27T22:29:16.664+02:00

Panels would work, but so would just CSS :) Use Firebug to take a look at the markup on your product nodes (or if you're already editing your product tpl file, then add some wrappers for columns), and then add CSS that sets widths and floats them to the left, so they stack up in columns.

Hunh, I saw that module but th

2009-05-26T20:28:47.577+02:00

Hunh, I saw that module but the "This module doesn't have a UI" part made me assume it probably wasn't widely used :) I guess for your needs, it was needing to programmatically check for the argument that led to needing this solution? I think there are basically two paradigms to related content -- it's either specific to that exact product (which is usually more appropriate for the CCK solution, since it's just putting fields from the node that you enter as usual into tabs), or generic across many products (better for the QuickTabs-style approach). You can also get to the former using the latter by using arguments. For example, display a one-item view in a tab that takes in the product or some other field as the argument and uses that to pull up the relevant size chart or category-specific documentation or something. Or you could plunk in the views from uc_views. QuickTabs is also a very popular and well-supported module. I'm asking this for the purposes of theming (of course :)) -- if we were to include tab styling in a theme, what approach should it be for, what solution gives the most flexibility?

Yes, there's some intentional

2009-05-23T20:13:17.038+02:00

Yes, there's some intentional built-in-ness here of those links from both us and Acquia, but that being said, it was always our intention to come back and add an easier way to remove or adjust the links. The bigger hold-up was that all our themes (free and those on topnotchthemes.com) have the same template.php and theme settings files, for ease of maintenance. However, going into the 2.x releases of the Acquia themes will be a new separation of general and theme-specific settings, which will allow us to keep the consistent settings easily up to date but add/remove settings on a per-theme basis. ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

Great ideas Tostinni! For fac

2009-05-21T14:46:33.119+02:00

Great ideas Tostinni! For faceted search terms, do you mean the Apache Solr search? We're looking at doing a premium version here on topnotchthemes.com that supports the color module, but we'll pack as much as we can into the free one too :) Andrew -- I can't give a specific date right now, but we're in the design/feature spec stage now. We'll be starting on the theming in 7-10 days, and doing pre-release versions on drupal.org along the way.

Thanks Ryan! Yeah I've seen t

2009-05-20T06:51:51.886+02:00

Thanks Ryan! Yeah I've seen the cookie site before, *really* nice. Brian, we'll be hitting on all the standard Drupal module fare as well, so I think it will be popular for non-ecommerce sites too. We've looked at grid stuff and my partner Chris, the more technical of us, has been tinkering in his spare time with an experimental version of our base theme using a grid-based, faux absolute position layout. If it turns out to be an option that makes sense for our themes across the board, then we'll probably make the switch. So... it's a possibility, but not soon :)

The right sidebar is inset int

2009-05-16T20:58:17.756+02:00

The right sidebar is inset into the content, so that text wraps beside and below. This is not a bug and is not going to change as the standard in the theme. The idea was to break out of some of the common cliches of full column Drupal themes, and offer a sidebar block style best suited for a blog/news site, or something with mainly text content. With things like tables, forums, etc if you're trying to use the three column layout, you're going to have problems. I would recommend that you add some custom CSS for your particular content (ie. to restrict the ID of a forum table or view to a certain width), or if you want to make the sidebar permanently take up that entire width and *not* have text wrap below at all, just override the main column width for the .layout-first-main-last definition in the CSS. Since this latter one is a not-uncommon request, we should probably add it as some commented out CSS in the local.css file so it's easy to find. But yes, as you've noticed, we're moving towards Panels 3 support with the theme, which gives even more options for creating whatever layouts you want :) ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

Or even easier, override in yo

2009-05-12T18:42:28.868+02:00

Or even easier, override in your local.css file: http://drupal.org/node/418326#local-css ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

Ah interesting! We have conte

2009-05-09T22:42:59.289+02:00

Ah interesting! We have content type-specific settings for the byline via Acquia Marina's theme settings, so of course that's overwriting the module's modifications. The theme does print $submitted; but we'll need to put in a check for the submitted_by module.

It depends on how "adult" you'

2009-05-02T00:21:27.332+02:00

It depends on how "adult" you're talking about. Physical goods? Downloable media? Subscriptions? What level of nudity/explicitness, and how is it going to be marketed? If not, CCBill and Verotel are the leading reputable adult payment processors. There aren't Ubercart payment plugins for them but the cost of writing or having one of those written would probably be worth it compared to the risk of 2CheckOut shutting you down and holding your funds. Plus it's come up a lot on here and I bet others might go in on a bounty.

See the Acquia Slate handbook:

2009-04-29T03:18:53.899+02:00

See the Acquia Slate handbook: http://drupal.org/node/418326#regions ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

I just posted in the Ubercart

2009-04-27T22:47:35.235+02:00

I just posted in the Ubercart forums about a potential UberCamp just before/after DrupalCamp Colorado: http://www.ubercart.org/forum/general_discussion/10618/ubercamp_2009 Denver's a nice central location to fly to from the west coast too :) We'd be interested in sponsorship and presenting. ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

If you go edit the field's dis

2009-04-26T19:00:04.351+02:00

If you go edit the field's display options in CCK (go to Manage Fields in your product content type), there's an option for "Inline" labels in the dropdown.

I know I already said this on

2009-04-26T04:29:22.418+02:00

I know I already said this on IRC, but what an awesome job :) Thanks for posting it here! My only complaint would be that the medium grey (non-hovered) primary links are a bit low contrast compared to the pink background. Changing them to something like #ddd would make it much more legible. ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

Thanks so much for sharing And

2009-04-25T01:37:42.718+02:00

Thanks so much for sharing Andrea, it looks lovely! Now that Acquia Marina has RTL support in dev we'll be soon turning our attention to Slate as well. Love the colours :) ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

Hmm this page is supposed to b

2009-04-21T18:29:58.595+02:00

Hmm this page is supposed to be a wiki page... there's no edit tab? http://groups.drupal.org/node/20117 I added it to the showcase page though. Nice job on the site! Smart use of the header for that menu. ~~~ { Drupal Themes from TopNotchThemes }

If we had a real name for our

2009-04-07T02:11:14.398+02:00

If we had a real name for our base theme, that could work, but we just call it "base" internally :P I get the distinction, but "support" rubs me the wrong way because the appropriate place for true support requests is the issue queue or via our email support. Really more of a "user group" is what this was going for, discussion, brainstorming, ideas, resources, planning, philosophical questions, polls, wiki pages, etc. What about something like that... TopNotchThemes User Group? TNT Themes User Group? (although I don't know that "TNT" is very recognizable out of context so it depends on where exactly this phrase is going) Also, this wouldn't change the short name in the URL, right?

That looks like UC Views: htt

2009-04-03T21:18:16.472+02:00

That looks like UC Views: http://drupal.org/project/uc_views

Oh how I miss being in Toronto

2007-02-03T08:14:57.377+01:00

Oh how I miss being in Toronto and taking classes at Arabesque!