Submitted by wilbur on
This exercise is just illustrative, it's not as easy as you think.
To build a theme, you need to be able to read and access a PSD file. To do so gain access to photoshop
To gain access to photoshop, you need to sign up for Adobe Creative Cloud. Pay your $10 per month for Photoshop Photography Program, which is a limited time offer until March 31, 2014!
Submitted by wilbur on
This morning I worked on a pet project, the Team Road Kill website. For many reasons, this is a Drupal 6 Install. Even though we are still stuck with a heavy install of the Location module, we got a new facelift on the site, but updating the WYSIWYG process and updating how we manage inline images.
What's OUT:
Submitted by wilbur on
After installing the Drupal Zen Theme, I started working on SCSS files with Sublime Text 3. ST3 is my preferred editor right now, because it is so easy to access. I also really like the contextual color coding for various file types.
Unfortunately SASS file formatting is not natively installed. There's a package for that!
Submitted by wilbur on
This week I am working on learnig the new Drupal Zen theme version 5.4. It's a big change because this theme uses SASS and Compass natively for the theming.
First, we need to install SASS and Compass on Ubuntu, my local build environment:
http://ndever.net/articles/linux/installing-sass-and-compass-ubuntu-1210-1304
Install Ruby and gems:
Submitted by wilbur on
Today I committed one of my Drupal projects to GITHUB. I followed this posting on drupal.org, which has a nice explanation of adding the drupal project to your repo:
https://drupal.org/node/803746
Submitted by wilbur on
When working with Drupal 7 and a repository, it's just best to completely ignore the sites/default folder. Why?
Submitted by wilbur on
When installing a local host instance of your Drupal 7 website, Drush likes to see 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost as the name of the host. You can get the best of both worlds by using the following in the settings.php file:
