Any good beginner tutorials out there for site design?

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Geoff Taylor	Tuesday 12 April 2011 3:14:32 pm I've been messing around with ez off and on (mostly off) for a couple of years now and have never ventured to do more than pick one of the default page designs and just add content into it. I'm looking to customize the design of the ezwebin_site_clean setup. I thought I had an understanding of the whole override system but I feel like I'm going in circles now. On a few other posts and tutorials I have seen they recommend making a new folder, usually called my_site, within the /design directory and then copy the entire standard design contents into the my_site directory. Where I have trouble is which overrides to use to make sure that the my_site design is the one in use. I do have a specific question, what is the purpose of having the empty ezwebin_site_clean folder inside of the /design directory? I would greatly appreciate any and all help! -Geoff
kracker (the)	Tuesday 12 April 2011 5:47:53 pm No not from what I have seen .... I do remember this sitestyle article, http://share.ez.no/learn/ez-publish/how-to-skin-an-ez-publish-now-site Also you should use the override system and not create a full copy of an existing design. Rather add only the templates you need to customize the design to meet your needs. In this case less is more. Creating a design extension to this end is not hard. Cheers, //kracker Member since: 2001.07.13 \|\| http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/
Geoff Taylor	Tuesday 12 April 2011 8:34:15 pm Thanks for the reply. I've read that article and it helped some, maybe I need to go over it again. Perhaps I'm headed the wrong way here and need to focus more on the CSS as I'm mostly concerned right now with the colors, font and other superficial changes to the site.
Nicolas Pastorino	Thursday 14 April 2011 2:47:36 am Hi Geoff, I am sure you already went through this, but having a look at the documentation regarding the Design override system is always a very good start : http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.5/Templates/The-template-override-system Let us know how things go, Cheers, -- Nicolas Pastorino Director Community - eZ Member of the Community Project Board eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye

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Database Queries	62

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Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0030	0.3484	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0012	0.1422	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	0.0845	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.8048	93.8894	62	0.0130
Looping result	0.0009	0.1108	60	0.0000
Template Total	0.8306	96.9	2	0.4153
Template load	0.0020	0.2359	2	0.0010
Template processing	0.8285	96.6621	2	0.4143
Template load and register function	0.0003	0.0316	1	0.0003
states
state_id_array	0.0007	0.0875	1	0.0007
state_identifier_array	0.0008	0.0890	2	0.0004
Override
Cache load	0.0017	0.1935	26	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0005	0.0569	3	0.0002
Fetch class attribute name	0.0012	0.1434	6	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0033	0.3874	3	0.0011
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0018	6	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0036	0.4257	24	0.0002
String conversion	0.0000	0.0028	4	0.0000
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Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 16 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs