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6 Days - 6 Themes
Phu Ly over at ifelse.co.uk/ set himself the task of creating and publishing to the web one theme a day for 6 days with the luxury of Sunday off. These themes are now available for Textpattern from TextGarden or Just Another Theme.
Stuart
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Awesome, I’m partial to Simpla.
Thanks to Phu Ly for creating them and to you for porting them.
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Stuart,
I downloaded Simpla and was reading the readme.html file, nice instructions by the way.
Is there a reason why I have to overwrite the default templates and forms, couldn’t it just be in addition to the defaults in case I want to go back?
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Great job Stu!
Well done on the smooth ports.
Have you looked at Rob Sable’s very cool, totally automatic theme install?
If this is a good as it looks/reads, it could be a great way to head for future themes…
It’s been excellent to see all the other entries in the themes competition too.
Cheers
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Nice ports me like thanks Stu
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great job! :-)
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@hcgtv – no reason why you couldn’t keep the templates separate by using a prefix just as long as any references to templates, form or page, within other templates are altered accordingly. It’s how I do it on Just Another Theme.
@NeilA – yes I have seen it. I was testing something very similar for him. Should be great once it’s finished.
@Everyone else – thanks for the comments.
Stuart
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thebombsite wrote:
@hcgtv – no reason why you couldn’t keep the templates separate by using a prefix just as long as any references to templates, form or page, within other templates are altered accordingly. It’s how I do it on Just Another Theme.
Until a theme engine is in place, would it be a good idea to make the necessary prefix alterations to themes offered for download so that they are ready to be included into a site like you’ve done on “Just Another Theme”?
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You can just save your Default templates as something like “Default-original” and then you can just go back to it whenever you want.
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Great work Stuart! Your ports are awesome!
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@hcgtv – Well actually I was debating whether to change the download files to use the setup that I use on Just Another Theme.
There, I have a single page template which does both article_list and individual_article views as well as the About page. Further to that, many FORM templates that I use such as DTD, header, sidebar, footer and page navigation, are injected straight into the page template where the normal output_form tag would be. The only special form I use is default_styleName as this can be too intricate to start messing around with if_section tags. It’s then just a case of messing around with the other default forms such as comments and comments_form and adding if_section tags where appropriate.
My only problem about releasing it like this is that it doesn’t really teach a newcomer how to use TXP. It isn’t really the “normal” way of doing things is it?
Anyway, however I decide to release it, in the end, I shall have to convert them all to whatever method comes out of the “Theme” forum. ;)
Stuart
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Stuart,
I really like your designs… they are inspirations for me.
I said it already: I like the way you create… few images… most CSS little magic dust.
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