http://technify.me/cms/drupal/theming-custom-entities-in-drupal-7/ Tue, 08 May 2012 17:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://technify.me/cms/drupal/theming-custom-entities-in-drupal-7/#comment-862 Scott Lewis Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:55:00 +0000 http://technify.me/?p=208#comment-862 Hey Jesus. I apologize for the really slow response. I stay ridiculously busy (by my own choice) so it takes me a while sometimes. Display Suite looks really interesting. I especially like the idea of a drag-and-drop interface. I have been dreaming of such a thing for a long time, not just for Drupal, but for content management in general. Even though I'm glad to be able to make a living coding, there really is no reason for us to keep reinventing the same wheels. My only concern is the inevitable code bloat that comes with something like this. What I mean is that there is always a tradeoff and the more simple the interface becomes, that tradeoff is usually in code bloat or complexity. Drupal itself is a great example of this. The ability to re-skin Drupal in unlimited fashion is that the HTML it outputs is really bloated. Look at the main navigation to see what I mean. There are about 8-10 CSS classes applied to every HTML element. I'm not criticizing the developers. They have no choice. I have built about a dozen versions of my own CMS so I am intimately familiar with the problems that must be solved. The only way to make the code really flexible is to make it more complex. Hey Jesus. I apologize for the really slow response. I stay ridiculously busy (by my own choice) so it takes me a while sometimes. Display Suite looks really interesting. I especially like the idea of a drag-and-drop interface. I have been dreaming of such a thing for a long time, not just for Drupal, but for content management in general. Even though I’m glad to be able to make a living coding, there really is no reason for us to keep reinventing the same wheels. My only concern is the inevitable code bloat that comes with something like this. What I mean is that there is always a tradeoff and the more simple the interface becomes, that tradeoff is usually in code bloat or complexity. Drupal itself is a great example of this. The ability to re-skin Drupal in unlimited fashion is that the HTML it outputs is really bloated. Look at the main navigation to see what I mean. There are about 8-10 CSS classes applied to every HTML element. I’m not criticizing the developers. They have no choice. I have built about a dozen versions of my own CMS so I am intimately familiar with the problems that must be solved. The only way to make the code really flexible is to make it more complex.

]]> http://technify.me/cms/drupal/theming-custom-entities-in-drupal-7/#comment-860 Jesus Manuel Olivas Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:07:00 +0000 http://technify.me/?p=208#comment-860 What will be your opinion about using a module like Display Suite http://drupal.org/project/ds  to achieve this from the web interface, I mean thinking about: -The less experienced users.-Maintain theme compatibility when new version published.Best Regards, What will be your opinion about using a module like Display Suite http://drupal.org/project/ds  to achieve this from the web interface, I mean thinking about: -The less experienced users.-Maintain theme compatibility when new version published.Best Regards,

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