Will someone design a theme for me?

planetphillip · March 02, 2004, 05:52:31 PM

Hi,

I downloaded and installed coppermine a couple of days ago and am absolutely astonished at how useful it is.

I have one installation that I am happy to leave as the default setting but want to install another one (On another website) but really want it to blend into the style of the site in question.

At the risk of upsetting a few readers, I am not a coder and have no interest in learning more than I have to. This is not due to any aversion of code, just a lack of time and motivation.

Would somebody be willing to create a simply theme for me? I am prepared to pay a small fee or buy a book from your Amazon wish list (or similar).

The site is question is a simple fan site and is not a commercial venture (Hence the small fee).

For some idea of the theme required, visit
Planet Phillip

I apologize to the site admin if the offer of financial reward is against forum policy.

I can be contacted at gaming@planetphillip.com

TIA

hyperion · March 03, 2004, 05:23:31 AM

Gallery Hostings says they design themes for a fee, so you might try them.

http://www.gallery-hosting.com/

Joachim Müller · March 03, 2004, 06:55:47 AM

erm, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but the planetPhillip-Design is not that spectacular - it has been built with M$ Frontpage and has some no-nos in it (like two times the <head>-section. You could easily build a similar theme for coppermine (to match the overall look of your site), but there's little point in recycling your layout, since any resonable number of thumbnails of a bigger pic would definitely break the layout.
Some copy'n paste did the job for me, take this one as template.html:

Code Select

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html dir="{LANG_DIR}">
<head>
<title>{TITLE}</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={CHARSET}" />
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
{META}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="themes/default/style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts.js"></script>
</head>
<body link="#C40000" vlink="#C40000" alink="#C40000">

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="700" height="246">
  <tr>
    <td width="700" colspan="2" height="80">
    <p style="margin-left: 80; margin-top: 36; margin-bottom: 0">
    <font face="Georgia">
    <a target="_self" href="index.shtml">
    <img border="0" src="siteimages/planetphillip.png" width="373" height="63"></a></font></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 80; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 36">
    <font face="Georgia">
    <img border="0" src="siteimages/tagline.png" width="308" height="17"></font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="140" height="120" valign="top">

     <p align="right" </p>
      <html>


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
<p class="heading" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom:3" align="right"><b>
<font face="Georgia">Main</font></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a style="text-decoration: none" target="_self" href="http://www.planetphillip.com/index.shtml">Home</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a style="text-decoration: none"  href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0001.shtml">Sitemap</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right">
<a style="text-decoration: none"  href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0002.shtml">About</a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right">
<a style="text-decoration: none"  href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0003.shtml">Website Admin</a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="mailto:gaming@planetphillip.com" style="text-decoration: none">Contact</a></font></p>
<p class="heading" style="margin-top: 18; margin-bottom: 3" align="right">
<font face="Georgia"><b>Projects</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a style="text-decoration: none"  href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0004.shtml">HL Mapping Book</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a style="text-decoration: none"  href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0005.shtml">Level Design Wiki</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0006.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Weapons Database</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0007.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">SP Maps &amp; Mods</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0008.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Rare Files</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0009.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Features Database</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0011.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Dev Ideas</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0012.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Games</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0013.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">History of FPS</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0014.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Mapping Projects</a></font></p>
<p class="heading" style="margin-top: 18; margin-bottom: 3" align="right">
<font face="Georgia"><b>Links</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0015.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Recommended</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0016.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Game Development</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0017.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Half-Life</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0018.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Quake</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0019.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Unreal &amp; UT</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0020.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">General Gaming</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0021.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Non-Gaming</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3" align="right"><font face="Georgia">
<a href="http://www.planetphillip.com/0022.shtml" style="text-decoration: none ">Applications</a></font></p>
</td>
    <td width="560" height="120" valign="top">
    {MAIN_MENU}
    <hr noshade color="#C40000" size="1" class="hline">
    {ADMIN_MENU}
    {GALLERY}
    </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>

You'll have to make the colors match in style.css and you're done; but like I said: the coppermine content will break the layout, since it has been done improperly in the first place...

GauGau

planetphillip · March 03, 2004, 11:02:46 AM

Hyperion,
Thanks for the link I will check them out.

gaugau,
You hurt my feelings :cry: I spent minutes, yes minutes, building that site and all my hard work is dismissed in one knife-into-the-heart sentence. Shame on you. :wink:

Really, I knew it wasn't spectacular, I just wanted a simple clean interface. I was hoping to just have one column on thumbnails and everything happen in that one large table row.

Thank you for the code, I have uploaded it and it's a start. I just need to change some of the layout and colour elements.

If anybody is interested in getting it working properly, I am still willing to pay something.

TIA
Phillip

Tweak · March 05, 2004, 10:24:33 PM

If you like my design, feel free to contact me, and I can give you all the necessary files, free of charge or hassle.

http://www.descriva.com/gallery/

nmonk · March 06, 2004, 11:57:10 PM

Hi tweak,

I would love to use your design if possible to. I am happy to pay as I would like a few extra features added like a info section telling people how to upload etc, and perhaps a biography of the photo submiter.

Give me an email on nathan@isystems.co.nz,

Many thanks great design.

Nathan

Tarique Sani · March 07, 2004, 04:30:16 AM

I think this discussion can now be taken off the forum....

Unless we are also starting an employment / freelancer forum

Tweak · March 10, 2004, 12:16:11 AM

I just wanted to help the guy out, thats not so bad now is it?

planetphillip.com, I will contact you when possible, right now I am finishing a small project.

coppermine-gallery.com/forum

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Will someone design a theme for me?

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Tarique Sani

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