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Mihai007 Pop	Sunday 13 April 2008 11:13:07 am Hey guys!!! Can anyone try to help me with the following question? I would like to implement a brand new design for an eZ 4.x website! I understand how to create a style, and how to change the pagelayout! But I want a short list of simple steps to be able to implement designs as bought from a site called www.templatemonster.com! In other words they do not adhere to the same structure as the css structures from ez system. most of the tutorials and docs on this subject refer on how to <b>modify</b> existing css structures and apply overrides. I want to create a brand new design layout! Yes i do want to keep thingsa such as the editing toolbar for frontend editing. What would these simple steps be? Thanks in advance
Maxime Thomas	Sunday 13 April 2008 11:11:08 pm Hi, Try this one : http://ez.no/developer/articles/how_to_skin_an_ez_publish_now_site Maxime Thomas maxime.thomas@wascou.org \| www.wascou.org \| http://twitter.com/wascou Company Blog : http://www.wascou.org/eng/Company/Blog Technical Blog : http://share.ez.no/blogs/maxime-thomas
Mihai007 Pop	Monday 14 April 2008 7:46:15 am Hi! I did look at that tutorial! Actually just before my post! Yet I still have the problem with the modification of an existing style and pagelayout! You see I want to be able to purchase a template from TemplateMonster or from anywhere else for that matter! And then implement it! Now the new ez 3.x and 4.x has these overriding abilities. Yet in 2.x you used to be able to control the layout from extreme scratch! The new way seems more tedious - let's say you are really imaginative and the site really should look outstanding with fancy footwork here and there! To do that it would take hours on end! To find each of the css rules for each of the links and so on. Whereas you could design your own template with your own rules and your own images and slap them on the site. That should take far little time than all this work of overriding each element. Is it not? I am still battling to create a brand new design from scratch! That is why I asked if anyone could list the steps for what I want to do: <b>purchase a design, and apply it to an ez site</b>!!! But thanks for the fast response. Very impressive :) Best regards, Mihai
Piotrek Karaś	Monday 14 April 2008 9:03:25 am Implementing a design is more of a task than just applying the interface. You would have to analyze the design, divide it functionally, plan the caches, plan the line views, think of the navigation etc... I believe starting from a plain_site design is a good idea. You still might have to make up for the layout's author's lack of eZ experience... Unless you buy a dedicated eZ design implementation, you will have spend the right amount of time to have it done. Good luck. -- Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585 eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 11:32:06
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 11:32:06
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 11:32:06
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 11:32:07
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 11:32:07
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.8525 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	62

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0058	589.0234	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0058	0.0036	741.6484	39.4297
Module start 'content'	0.0094	0.8415	781.0781	592.1094
Module end 'content'	0.8510	0.0015	1,373.1875	12.1875
Script end	0.8525		1,385.3750

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0034	0.3997	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0015	0.1727	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	0.0878	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.7962	93.3963	62	0.0128
Looping result	0.0006	0.0704	60	0.0000
Template Total	0.8170	95.8	2	0.4085
Template load	0.0021	0.2440	2	0.0010
Template processing	0.8149	95.5860	2	0.4074
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0188	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0016	0.1842	1	0.0016
state_identifier_array	0.0010	0.1164	2	0.0005
Override
Cache load	0.0018	0.2105	27	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0008	0.0902	3	0.0003
Fetch class attribute name	0.0011	0.1253	6	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0014	0.1619	3	0.0005
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0013	6	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0011	0.1294	23	0.0000
String conversion	0.0000	0.0011	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

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
4	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
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 12 Number of unique templates used: 5

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs