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adrock
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/7/20 1:36

  • adrock

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all wasted breath for someone that isn't even going to read the manual!

Even the Nuke themes require you to alter and modify their module equivalents to match the themes that you are using. so their not all plug n play and pretty like it sounds in this thread.

Open photoshop....draw a groovy box with a header area...apply your style and design to it, and slice it up.

Simple.

Find another theme that uses graphics to surround the blocks...alter the graphical content to be yours instead of the default...

umm.....15 maybe 20 minutes worth of 'work'?

The style sheet is even easier than that...and style sheets are the future of web design and content management in my opinion...make up your mind..are we behind, or are we at the front?

I choose the extra hour of my time to alter a theme for my own liking over other CMS's that are less secure, cost money everytime you turn around looking for a decent module, and only has fantasy/gaming geeks as support members!

(thanks for letting me blow off that steam!)
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JMorris
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/7/20 1:58

  • JMorris

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Quote:
thanks for letting me blow off that steam!


No problem.
Insanity can be defined as "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

Stupidity is not a crime. Therefore, you are free to go.

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tvepsorg
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/7/21 6:17

  • tvepsorg

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Quote:

JMorris wrote:
Is this "thinking outside of the blocks" enough for you?

Resized Image

And yes, it will be available soon. Look for the NuVu theme in the next couple days.


Yes, that is much better. I'm not suggesting that a theme has to have a billion graphics to be good. I'm just saying that the very "blockish" plain css theme is getting a bit old. I like that theme very much.

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tvepsorg
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/7/21 6:31

  • tvepsorg

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Quote:

adrock wrote:
all wasted breath for someone that isn't even going to read the manual!

Even the Nuke themes require you to alter and modify their module equivalents to match the themes that you are using. so their not all plug n play and pretty like it sounds in this thread.

Open photoshop....draw a groovy box with a header area...apply your style and design to it, and slice it up.

Simple.

Find another theme that uses graphics to surround the blocks...alter the graphical content to be yours instead of the default...

umm.....15 maybe 20 minutes worth of 'work'?

The style sheet is even easier than that...and style sheets are the future of web design and content management in my opinion...make up your mind..are we behind, or are we at the front?

I choose the extra hour of my time to alter a theme for my own liking over other CMS's that are less secure, cost money everytime you turn around looking for a decent module, and only has fantasy/gaming geeks as support members!

(thanks for letting me blow off that steam!)


I agree with you on some points. Stylesheet is very helpful in web design, but I don't think they will be the "sole" means of bringing content to the web. In case you haven't noticed ISP's are in a bandwidth race. You have Verizon bringing Fiber to the Premesis services that gives customer 15megs down and 2megs up for 40-50 bucks a month. Once this become the norm for most of society, you will see more graphic rich themes. CSS only themes rarely are able to stand out and make an impact on the person looking at the site. To an accomplished web designer I'm sure that you can appreciate the complexity of a css only theme, but to the average user they are just bland.

P.S. I have modified an existing theme, again, I'm not asking for a theme. Simply asking "why" the entire community insists on lowering their standards in terms of themes, when they have such high standards for the actual code.

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MaFIa
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/8/15 15:29

  • MaFIa

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yes why dont you make a thems like this in XOOPS

www.linker.dk

If i could i will make thems like this in xoops, but i cant iam not good at it, but i have this themes and its is make in nuke, so if anybody like to try to make thes themes in XOOPS i can send this theme to you.

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davidl2
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/8/15 15:45

  • davidl2

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Use Multimenu 1.7.x for the graphical left hand menu (home/war/next action), the rest should be fairly straight forward... (but don't ask me to do it! )

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LazyBadger
Re: WHY????

Quote:

MaFIa wrote:
yes why dont you make a thems like this in XOOPS

www.linker.dk

Because I'm, personally, not interested in this theme - it has nothing extra-cool...
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MaFIa
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/8/16 6:11

  • MaFIa

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Quote:

LazyBadger wrote:
Quote:

MaFIa wrote:
yes why dont you make a thems like this in XOOPS

www.linker.dk

Because I'm, personally, not interested in this theme - it has nothing extra-cool...


show me a themes you think is nice? thx

Sry but i dont think there are lot of nice themes in xoops

Like i sad i cant make themes but i know there are som there can.

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davidl2
Re: WHY????
  • 2005/8/16 7:51

  • davidl2

  • XOOPS is my life!

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There are plenty of nice themes... but it depends on what your defination of nice is....

The above theme isn't for me - but perhaps ones I like would not suit others...

Anyway, variety is good

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LazyBadger
Re: WHY????

Quote:

MaFIa wrote:

show me a themes you think is nice? thx

My themes on Themes Exhibition - 4 0DC-* themes on top of list

Quote:

Sry but i dont think there are lot of nice themes in xoops

"Nice" is matter of taste

Quote:

Like i sad i cant make themes but i know there are som there can.

As it was said - you don't want spend own time and work on small study-cycle. Why I have to spent my time and make for nothing things, which I don't want to do???
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