New site

[Stuart Ball]

I got my first Drupal 6 site up and running late last night. See
www.syrphidae.info. Does not yet include species pages, just content
from the 5 International Symposia on Syrphidae so far. Species pages
should be coming shortly.

Stuart

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[Vincent Smith]

Congratulations Stuart - looks great,

Let us know when the taxon pages are running.

Best,

Vince

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[Bacon, Jim]

Love the theming, Stuart. I'm sick to death of Garland but haven't bothered to get rid of it yet.

Jim.

Best,

Vince

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[John van Breda]

Hi Stuart,

Looks really good and a nice elegant theme. Not sure if you wanted to try
the Indicia module at some point?

One small thing I noticed, on the forum module the "Login to post comment"
text wraps under the box below it (on FireFox 3.5 at least - see
http://www.syrphidae.info/node/254).

John

[Vincent Smith]

Ditto - it looks great.

Garland works well for many users that like to customise the layout
and colour scheme. Also they are not as familiar with the Garland
theme as the developer community, so most have not learned to get sick
of it the way we have. For this reason it has never been a priority in
the Scratchpad project. There are theme related issues if users adopt
anything that conflicts with the general layout and navigation options
of the Scratchpads. Thinking about it - Stuarts one might do this -
causing bleeding and wrapping issues as John notes. This may well be a
big issue of taxon pages.

Best,

Vince

[Stuart Ball]

I tried out quite a few themes - Theme Garden
http://themegarden.org/drupal6/ is excellent for this. There are about
160 Drupal 6 themes there and you can apply them to the site to see what
they look like. However, despite the extensive choice, I find that
nothing does quite everything I want and they all have some little
niggles - like the wrapping John points out.

The way I have discovered to deal with this sort of stuff is to add a
custom.css file in the theme's base directory - if there is not already
one there. Make sure the <theme name>.info file contains a line:

stylesheets[all][] = custom.css

below any other stylesheets lines it contains.

This will cause the custom.css style sheet to be loaded last in the
chain so any CSS code you put in there will override anything already
present. When I find something I want to modify, I use the FireFox
extension FireBug to identify the relevant mark-up and then add my own
CSS in custom.css to override it.

I find that this is a neat way to sort out little niggles like John's.
It means I don't muck around with any of the CSS in core, modules or the
theme and it keeps all my modifications in one place. Providing I
remember to comment them properly, I might also be able to work out what
I did, why and when!

[Charle...@sussexwt.org.uk]

> One small thing I noticed, on the forum module the "Login to post
comment"
> text wraps under the box below it (on FireFox 3.5 at least - see
> http://www.syrphidae.info/node/254).

Should be quite easy to fix by chucking the following into the
custom.css:

.reply-link {
height: auto;
}

Charles

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