More consistency between Guild websites

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

If I build a theme that is adapted to work for Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, phpBB, Mediawiki, and for pure HTML pages, will that make it better? I've already themed for Wordpress and Mediawiki, and Joomla seems fairly simple from what I can see. Once my basic HTML is done, could anyone give me pointers for Drupal and phpBB?
EDIT: After looking more carefully, Drupal seems fairly standard, so I guess I won't need help with that. I think I can finish the basic layout in about a week, and then I'll start with Joomla and Drupal.

Leonardo · **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:47 pm

Drupal uses plain HTML and CSS, but for more advanced stuff you need to be able to program the Drupal Theming Hooks in PHP: http://drupal.org/documentation/theme (GoMe uses Drupal 6)
Also read the Best Practices: http://drupal.org/node/360052

However always remember that it's not sure everyone will accept your design

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

It doesn't really matter if it's accepted or not, to me. I hope it is, but if it isn't well, I can try again.

And thank you for those tips.

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

I have just finished my first mock-up of the Guild of Maintainers layout.
You can download it at : http://lyros.co.cc/uru/GoMa-1.0.zip
Just download it anywhere on your computer and open in your navigator index.html. This layout was tested in Google Chrome 10 and Mozilla Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu Linux 10.10. It will probably not work in old versions of Internet Explorer (my guess is 6.0 will destroy it, and 7.0/8.0 will not display everything well; just a sneaking suspicion).
If you just want to take a quick look at it, click on the spoiler tag below :
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I have combined my favourite elements from the GoMe, the GoMa, and the GoW to create this sort of hybrid, which should be easily adaptable to the other guilds. If anyone from the Guild of Maintainers could give me their opinion, I would be most thankful. All other opinions are welcomed too.

adi · **Joined:** Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:37 am **Posts:** 383

Nice work, Lyrositor!

And good luck with the remaining steps of your project.

kaelisebonrai · **Joined:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:14 pm **Posts:** 902

I personally feel a design like this would be a step backwards, if this was applied to the GoW site, but that's just my personal opinion. =P

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

In the case of the GoW, I find the design so beautiful, I don't feel it should be changed.
I was thinking about news, but I think that's more up to the Guild of Maintainers. I'll try, though.
EDIT: I have decided I won't work on presenting a news feed unless my design is accepted. I have posted a submission on their forum here: http://www.guildofmaintainers.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1889
EDIT 2: I am starting work on the GoC's website in the meantime.

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

UPDATE: I have started work on the basic layout of the GoC's website. I have read the colors associated with it are supposedly turquoise, so I've picked a palette of blue (the navigation bar might be a bit too dark, but GIMP is misbehaving, I'll check later). Comments?
I have a screenshot inside the spoiler tag here:
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Nalates, I need your opinion, since you are the head of the guild (from what I can tell).

Squirtdude · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:44 pm

Lyrositor wrote:

I have just finished my first mock-up of the Guild of Maintainers layout.

Nice work! Currently i've been making a site from scratch (I mean everything) you can download it here: http://danielscartoons.weebly.com/uploa ... te_1.2.zip

Maybe I can put my techniques to use by making stuff for the guild sites.

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

UPDATE: building upon what work I achieved with the previous layout, I have cranked out the first version of my layout for the Guild of Cartographers. It is not perfect, and more work needs to be done to customize it to the Guilds' preferences. But, in my opinion at least, it is better than the current theme. Speaking of which, can the administrator manage DNS? Because if so, it's rather easy to get a free domain name (e.g. .co.cc, .cz.cc, .tx).
Finally, I'd like to state another thing about what I'm doing : these designs I'm producing are just suggestions. As such, I don't attempt to recreate the content. I'm only creating a layout, a template.
Anyway :
Example: http://lyros.co.cc/uru/GoC-1.0.zip
Screenshot:
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Tweek · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 12:11 am **Posts:** 2633

Whilyam wrote:

It would be nice to get the guild sites (at least the main Cyan Guilds) to use the same template. Not only would it provide a uniform experience for the visitor, it would also demonstrate how the Guilds can work with one another. Although I'm sure the GoW would be less than thrilled to have to change designs so soon after they got Tweek's awesome design (perhaps Tweek designs all fan websites from now on?

)

Well after I had finished the GoW site I toyed around with some ideas for the other sites, just out of curiosity, which you can see here;

really roughly put together but shares enough traits to be a group yet still retain some individuality.

As to the comments about the GoW forums and Wiki not matching, there are plans for those, I did some designs for those too.

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

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How can I hope to compete with that? They're beautiful! I hope every Guild chooses that layout.
Except I'm not sure it'll work for news-oriented guilds...

Squirtdude · **Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:21 pm

Lyrositor wrote:

How can I hope to compete with that?

Don't cut yourself down, I really enjoyed your layouts!

Lyrositor · **Joined:** Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:14 pm **Posts:** 808

So do I, but they have been superseded. :roll:

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