New theme creation tips ?

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 13

Hello my friend could you give me a few tips to making the themes for the newsletter a bit easier please.

Spam Stopper - Comments Modules · Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 308

I think thats a little beyond the scope of a forum post but what I did with mine was to remove the PHP tags in the template and edit it manually in Dreamweaver.
The process is not perfect but at least gives you a starting point for the layout etc.

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 13

If i edit it in html can i use the phpnuke-tools to convert it to php, would that work my friend?

Spam Stopper - Comments Modules · Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 308

I have never used those tools so I couldnt comment on their use.
The only reasom I replied to your post was because I have already done a theme. As I had Dreamweaver on my PC, that is what I used but Dreamweaver will not show the layout whilst it has the PHP opening and closing tags in the file so I just removed them temporarily so Dreamweaver processed it as a html file instead of a php file.

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 13

Thank you for your replies. I do appreciatte your time my friend. If i find i can do the themes pretty easy i will behappy to do one for you as well as a thank you.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 952

Personally, the most important thing for me was making sure that I got the overall layout of the theme right and then the other content pieces would follow.

So, I copy and paste the HTML code that is being stored into the $emailfile variable out into a separate .html file and modify it to be what I want. That is probably 90% of the "battle".

I then copy that back into my template.php file.

Then, you can also do what Guardian has mentioned for each content area, and place that HTML right into your layout HTML get it looking the way you want, and then you have to pull out the header, rows and footer back out into your template.php file.

Sorry, but this templating system, although much simpler than some other newsletter tools, it still requires some work...

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 13

will give it a go my friend, as i look over the theme system it really isnt that bad once you grasp your brain around it..