WSU Web Template
I'm trying to create a Drupal template that complies with the new WSU web templates. It's a lot more work than I think I have time for. If LUG still has the template files from last year, they would help me a lot. I know there is the "project" listing for the really old web templates, but LUG was using the more recent templates last year. Any help in this area would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot
JS
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By the way, I'm now working on a solid Drupal6 theme for WSU Identity, including proper menu generation, toolbar, featured links, footer, site search, custom content top/bottom regions, etc. You can preview it here: http://134.121.60.2/drupal
I'll commit the code in a couple days.
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Yeah, I wrote a theme for Drupal 6. I was adding features to it when we got the C&D, so I'm not sure of its state right now. What are you planning to use it for? Realize that you cannot use it for an RSO.
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Any way we can get a copy of the themes you guys are developing?
Thanks
Randall
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These are the files I've put together so far. These are template files for DRUPAL 6. They are not yet complete. The navigation menu on the left has issues.
CSS can be included in nodes to customize pages (i.e. site id), but the design key must be changed manually in the page.tpl.php file. Adding an input field for nodes to specify a unique design key would be a great feature to impliment, though.
The file names should be page.tpl.php and wsutemplate.info and should be put into a directory called 'wsutemplate' The upload process changed the names of the files in this post. If I pursue this futher, I would look to include more template files to control formatting of blocks, etc.
Let me know if you have questions, and please let me know if you make any further progress on these.
Thanks,
JS
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I am the web administrator for the School of Music (http://libarts.wsu.edu/music)
Since I'm graduating in May, I'm experimenting with ways to make the site easy for someone else to come in and take over, and assuming that whoever does take over doesn't know how to use CSS, HTML, PHP, etc., I'm trying to impliment CMS. University Publishing offers a CMS service, so I think the department will probably go with that.
Anyway, I wrote a template for drupal 6 that uses the current WSU theme. I tested it on another site that I manage. http://www.sheltoncma.org/ if you go to this website, you'll see what it normally looks like (it's in the beginning stages, but you get the idea), and if you go to http://www.sheltoncma.org/site/?q=user and login using U: wsu P: wsu you can see what it looks like with the WSU theme I put together. The primary links are in the "toolbar" area, for now.
Right now I've been unable to solve this problem:
The navigation menu does not use the same formatting, and I don't know where to go to change it. I haven't found anything on Drupal's support forums. If I could call the navigation menu in the page.tpl.php file, perhaps I could get it to work, but I haven't found a way to call it.. In any case, the menu doesn't look the way it's supposed to.
And yes, I did know that RSO's are not permitted to use the WSU templates, which is weird. Especially considering that the RSO protal that the CUB provides for RSO's to use still utilizes the old WSU templates.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Joe
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Yeah, the menu structure is the hardest to get right. The first level is easy, but getting the full menu to look right requires some menu overloading. My current theme doesn't implement that. I was working on it when we got the C&D. Take a look at this:
https://lug.wsu.edu/svn/wsulug/projects/drupal/themes/cougar/branches/ws...
Be aware that it's really grody code. I was still experimenting, trying to figure out how it worked.
Apparently they're working on an RSO modified style ... we'll see what happens ;-)